Bibliographic record
Abstract
Community health and wellness: A socio-ecological approach Anne McMurray . Elsevier Australia , Sydney , 2007 . ISBN-13: 978-0-7295-3788-9 , ISBN-10: 0-7295-3788-9 . $A62.95 . McMurray's significant contribution to assisting health workers to understand and apply the principles of primary health care is evidenced by this third edition of Community health and wellness: A socio-ecological approach. The book is widely used by students in the health area and this current edition continues the theme of understanding community life from a socioecological perspective. Good health is viewed as being socially determined and the reader is encouraged to explore the social, cultural, economic and political environments that impact on individual and community health. There is an emphasis on the advocacy role of health workers and empowerment of individuals and communities. A primary health-care approach is fundamental to community health and McMurray applies international benchmarks like the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion for health workers to support individuals and communities to achieve their health aspirations. More recently developed frameworks for health promotion, such as the Jakarta Declaration into the 21st Century and the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalised World, are also included. The book is divided into three sections. Section 1: ‘Community health and wellness’ introduces the reader to the principles of primary health care as well as the impact of globalisation on health and health care. Section 2: ‘Sustainable health for the family and the individual’ applies primary health-care principles to the family dynamic and age groups from children through to older people. The chapter on healthy ageing considers influences on health and wellness, ageism, understanding experiences, benchmarking best practice and health promotion strategies for an ageing population. Section 3: ‘Inclusive communities and societies’ addresses health and gender, cultural inclusiveness, building an evidence base through practice-based research and inclusive policy development. The book adopts an easy to follow and successful format. The introductory text to each section and chapter provides context while the chapter objectives and critical thinking questions assist the reader to focus on major concepts. Of particular interest are the case studies that offer real-world examples of health promotion in practice. The websites are a useful adjunct to the chapter references. McMurray's text situates community health in Australia within an international context and continues to provide a welcome and accessible addition to the literature in this field.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".