PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH RESEARCH

TEXTBOOK REQUIREMENTS: SEMESTER 1 2016

Set texts can be purchased and recommended texts can be ordered from Charles Darwin
University Bookshop or other online book suppliers
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Version: 3 November 2015

PHM516 INDIGENOUS HEALTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Required texts:

Germov, J. (2014). Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology, 5th Edition. Oxford: Oxford University
Press

Carson, B. Dunbar, T. Chenhall, R. & Bailie, R eds (2007) Social Determinants of Indigenous Health Allen and
Unwin Sydney

Recommended text:

Burbank. V. K, 2011, An ethnography of stress, the social determinants of health in Aboriginal Australia, New
York, Palgrave Macmillan

PHM523 HEALTH PROMOTION

Required text:

Jirojwong, S. and Liamputtong, P. Eds. (2009). Population Health, Communities & Health Promotion. South
Melbourne, Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195560558

Recommended text:

Keleher, H., MacDougall, C., & Murphy, B. (Eds.). (2007). Understanding health promotion. 2
London: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780195552942

nd

edition.

PHM526 RESEARCH DESIGN

Required text:

Creswell, J.R. (2013) Research Design: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches, Fourth
Edition. Sage, London. ISBN: 9781412965576

Recommended text:
Nil

Education and Training

Email: education@menzies.edu.au
Phone: (08) 8946 8600

PHM536 HEALTH SYSTEMS PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

Required text:

th

Duckett Stephen J & Willcox Sharon (2011), The Australian Health Care System 4 Edition, Oxford University
Press, South Melbourne, Victoria

Recommended text:
Nil

PHM552 INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY

Required text:
nd
Webb P, & Bain C, Essential Epidemiology: an introduction for students and health professionals. (2010), 2
edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (ISBN-13: 9780521177313)
Recommended texts:

Gerstman, B (2003) Epidemiology Kept Simple: An Introduction to Traditional and Modern Epidemiology,
Second Edition, Wiley-Liss, New Jersey

Gregg, Michael. Field Epidemiology. 3rd ed (2002). Oxford University Press. ISBN-10: 0195142594 | ISBN-13:
978-0195142594

Bonita, R, Beaglehole R, and Kjellstrom T, Basic Epidemiology 2

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241547073_eng.pdf

Rothman K, Lash T and Greenland S, Modern Epidemiology 3 edition, 2012

nd

edition, 2004;

rd

PHM554 PUBLIC HEALTH DECISION-MAKING

Required text:

Phillips, C. J, 2005, Health Economics: An Introduction for Health Professionals (first edition,) BMJ Books,
London.

Recommended text

Beaver, C. 2003, Health Care Decision-making in the Western Pacific Region, WHO
(This text is available via Learnline with permission from the author/lecturer)

PHM566 CHRONIC CONDITIONS CONTROL

Required text:

There is no set text book for this unit

No single textbook is recommended for this unit. Recommended readings can be accessed through the CDU library,
CDU e-journal portal, CDU e-reserve catalogue or through free access on the WWW.

Education and Training

Email: education@menzies.edu.au
Phone: (08) 8946 8600

PHM567 FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Required text:
rd

Baum F. (2008) The New Public Health. 3 edition. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
OR

Baum F. (2015) The New Public Health. 4th edition. Oxford University Press, Melbourne

Recommended texts:

Palmer, G. R., & Short, S. D. (2000) Health care and public policy: An Australian analysis (Third Edition).
South Yarra, Victoria: MacMillan

Nutbeam, D. & Harris E. (1999). Theory in a nutshell: a guide to health promotion theory. Sydney: McGraw Hill

PHM592 GLOBAL HEALTH

Required text:

There is no set text book for this unit

Recommended text:
Skolnik, R. (2008). Essentials of Global Health. Sudbury, Massachusetts, Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Other helpful resources:

Beaglehole, R., Ed. (2003). Global Public Health: A new era. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Baum, F. (2008). The New Public Health. Melbourne, Oxford University Press.

Farmer, P. (2003). Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkley,
University of California Press.

Gruskin, Sofia, Grodin, Michael, Annas, George, Marks, Stephen, (eds) (2005). Perspectives on Health and
Human Rights. New York: Routledge.

PHM820/840 RESEARCH PROJECT

Required text:

There is no set text book for this course

Recommended texts:

Evans, D., & Gruba, P. (2002) How to Write a Better Thesis Second Edition Melbourne University Press,
Carlton

Hart, C (1998) Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination, SAGE
Publications, London

Mills, S. (2004) Discourse the new critical idiom Second Edition, Routledge London

Phillips, M., & Pugh, D. (2005) How to Get a PhD - a handbook for students and their supervisors, Fourth
Edition, Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education, England

*Highlighted books available in eBooks

Education and Training

Email: education@menzies.edu.au
Phone: (08) 8946 8600