Aboriginal Primary Health Care, 3rd edition is Australia's definitive guide to best-practice management of the major health problems facing Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders. This authentic and authoritative text assists health practitioners, policy-makers and communities to influence health determinants, advocate for and overcome inertia to change, and strengthen health care provision within a human rights context.

Proceeds from book sales support the continued operations of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services.

An evidence-based approach

• Systematically describes the burden of disease, the clinical evidence for effective primary health care provision and Australian health policy
• Describes the implementation and evaluation of population health programs
• Highlights solutions for addressing the Aboriginal health crisis, and the gaps in government health policy and accountability

New to this edition

• Comprehensively revised and updated clinical chapters with in-depth consideration of historical and contemporary Aboriginal health policy, and human rights obligations
• New chapters on respiratory infections, asthma, pregnancy care, and expansions in custodial health and substance misuse
• An expanded team of expert authors from across Australia

Introduction

1. Aboriginal Health and History

2. Health, Human Rights, and the Policy Process

3. Health Status

4. Organising Prevention

5. The Well Person's Health Check

6. Pregnancy Care

7. Failure to Thrive

8. Ear Health

9. Respiratory Infection (including Bronchiectasis)

10. Asthma

11. Skin Infections

12. Rheumatic Fever

13. Coronary Heart Disease

14. Diabetes

15. Chronic Kidney Disease

16. Sexually Transmitted Infections

17. Tuberculosis

18. Trachoma

19. Leprosy

20. Substance Misuse

21. Suicide and Self-Harm

22. Custodial Health

23. Research, Evaluation, and Aboriginal Primary Health Care

Index

Sophia Couzos - Public Health Officer, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, James Cook University

Richard Murray - Dean of Medicine, James Cook University, and Censor for the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine