Health
Public Health Practice in Australia
Vivian Lin, James Smith and Sally Fawkes
Format: Paperback
A comprehensive introduction to public health in Australia, now in its second edition. Taking an applied approach, it offers a systematic overview of the key theories, methods, priorities and players in the field.
Introducing Mental Health Nursing
Brenda Happell, Leanne Cowin, Cath Roper, Richard Lakeman, Leonie Cox
Format: Paperback
A thorough introduction to mental health nursing practice, with a service user-oriented approach. This second edition is fully updated and includes new chapters on recovery and cultural safety.
Clinical Helper for Mental Health Nursing
Brenda Happell, Louise Byrne, Margaret McAllister and Timothy Wand
Format: Paperback
The Clinical Helper for Mental Health Nursing is a pocket-sized, ready reference for students and new graduates working with mental health service-users in both hospital and community settings.
Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene
Edited by Sue Reed, Dino Pisaniello, Geza Benke and Kerrie Burton
Format: Paperback
A comprehensive overview of occupational hazards and hazardous environments encountered in a range of industries and organisational settings. In this thoroughly updated second edition, leading experts explain how to recognise, assess and control key hazards including dusts, metals, gases, noise, radiation and microbiological agents.
Nutritionism
Gyorgy Scrinis
Format: Paperback
Demystifies the popular obsession with 'good' versus 'bad' nutrients, showing how this is used by the food industry to promote processed foods with misleading health claims. Gyorgy Scrinis explores the origins of this reductive focus on nutrients, and how it can undermine our understanding of what is healthy and unhealthy food.
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
Format: Paperback
One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives.
Sex, Lies & Pharmaceuticals
Ray Moynihan
A hard-hitting and provocative expose that takes us inside the corridors of medical power to watch the birth of the new 'disease' - Female Sexual Dysfunction - and the marketing machine that will create it.
Patient Safety First
Judith Healy and Paul Dugdale
Format: Paperback
More people die each year in hospital accidents than in car accidents. This is a much needed systematic analysis of current issues, challenges and outcomes surrounding safety in patient health care in Australia.
Nutrition Promotion
Tony Worsley
Format: Paperback
An introduction to approaches and techniques used to influence food behaviours and improve nutrition and health.
Doing Health Policy in Australia
Paul Dugdale
Format: Paperback
An insider's account of the Australian health system, and the economic, political and social dynamics which shape contemporary health policy.
