Full Description
The third edition of Aboriginal Primary Health Care is an invaluable advocacy tool for students and practitioners of medicine and aboriginal health. Using a primary care approach, it aims to help general practitioners, nurses and aboriginal health workers to manage the important health problems faced by aboriginal people in the community.
Contents
Introduction1. Aboriginal Health and History2. Health, Human Rights, and the Policy Process3. Health Status4. Organising Prevention5. The Well Person's Health Check6. Pregnancy Care7. Failure to Thrive8. Ear Health9. Respiratory Infection (including Bronchiectasis)10. Asthma11. Skin Infections12. Rheumatic Fever13. Coronary Heart Disease14. Diabetes15. Chronic Kidney Disease16. Sexually Transmitted Infections17. Tuberculosis18. Trachoma19. Leprosy20. Substance Misuse21. Suicide and Self-Harm22. Custodial Health23. Research, Evaluation, and Aboriginal Primary Health CareIndex
