Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Section 1 Community health and wellness 1 The community of the twenty-first century 2 Primary health care: enabling health and wellness 3 Determinants of health, illness and disability 4 Health promotion: concepts to practice Section 2 Sustainable health for the individual and family 5 Healthy children 6 Healthy adolescents 7 Healthy adults 8 Healthy ageing 9 Healthy families 10 Health and gender: healthy women, healthy men 11 Healthy Indigenous people Section 3 Promoting community competence 12 Healthy schools 13 Healthy workplaces 14 Researching community health 15 Health care: systems and policy Index

About the Author

Anne McMurray holds a Research Chair in Nursing at Peel Health Campus and Murdoch University in Western Australia. Anne has practised in a range of nursing and community health settings in Canada and Australia, and is actively involved in teaching, research, publishing and consulting. In 2006 she was included in the Queens Birthday Honours, being awarded a Member of Australia (AM) in consideration of her contribution to nursing, communities and professional publications.