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