Teaching Interests
- Research methods especially qualitative
- Social aspects of health
- Primary Health Care within Health Systems
- Political economy of health
- Location and Health Project, view website
Research Interests
- Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, awarded 2008
- Director South Australian Community Health Research Unit
- Lead Investigator Australian Health Inequities Program
- Social and economic inequities and impact of health
status
- Social capital and health
- Political economy of health especially impact of globalisation
- Evaluation of health promotion, especially healthy settings and
healthy cities initiative
- Research funding and assessment processes
Professional Activities
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Life Member and Past National President, Public Health Association of Australia
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Immediate Past National President Public Health Association of Australia
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South Australian Community Health Association
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Forthcoming Events
- 2007 - upcoming event The People's Health Movement: our current campaigns and actions, view PDF
Current Advocacy Issues
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Defend universality of Medicare
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Appropriate dog legislation
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Health Care Reform to build a strong Primary Health Care Sector
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Inequities and health
Key and Recent Publications
Books and Manuals
Fran Baum (2008) The New Public Health, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, to be published in January
Haile Kahssa, Fran Baum, David Sanders (eds.) ( 2005) Civil Society and Health, Geneva : WHO
Paul Laris, Fran Baum, Nikki Schaay, David Sanders, Haile Kahssay (2003) Tapping into Civil Society: Guidelines for linking health systems with civil society, Adelaide : SACHRU (in conjunction with WHO)
Fran Baum (2002) The New Public Health, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, (reprinted 2003, 2004, 2005 (x2), 2006 (2x) 607pp
Frances Baum (1998) The New Public Health: an Australian Perspective, Melbourne: Oxford University Press 586pp. (reprinted 5 times 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 )
Fran Baum (editor) (1995) Health for All: The South Australian Experience, Adelaide : Wakefield Press. 505pp
Frances Baum, Denise Fry and Ian Lennie (eds.) (1992) Community Health in Australia : Practice and Policy, Sydney : Pluto Press. 314pp
Frances Baum, Christine Gallus, Graham Brice, Richard Cooke and Michael Traynor (1991) Planning Healthy Communities - A Guide to Doing Community Needs Assessment . SACHRU, February, 1991. (reprinted 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002) 298pp
Haile Kahssay, Fran Baum, David Sanders (eds.)
Civil Society and Health, Geneva: WHO, forthcoming, 2004
Paul Laris, Fran Baum, Nikki Schaay, David Sanders,
Haile Kahssay (2003) Tapping into Civil Society: Guidelines
for linking health systems with civil society, Adelaide: SACHRU
(in conjunction with WHO)
Fran Baum (2002) The New Public Health,
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, (reprinted August,
2003)
Refereed Journal Articles
Fran Baum (2007) Cracking the nut of health equity: top down and bottom up pressure for action on the social determinants of health., International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, XIV, 2, 90-95.
Anna Ziersch Fran Baum Christine Putland Colin MacDougall (2006) Neighbourhood life, social capital and perceptions of safety in an Australian city, Australian Jr of Social Issues, under revision
Fran Baum , Colin MacDougall, Danielle Smith (2006) Glossary on Participatory Action Research, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60: 854-857.
Fran Baum Helen Van Eyk and Catherine Hurley (2006) Tension, conflict and uncertainty: key features of reform processes from an Australian case study of health services Australian Journal of Primary Health, 12,2, 24-
Fran Baum , Gwyn Jolley, Richard Hicks, Kate Saint, Steve Parker (2006) What makes for sustainable Healthy Cities initiatives? - a review of the evidence from Noarlunga after 18 years, Health Promotion International , forthcoming
Fran Baum (2006) Commentary on the Alma Ata Declaration, Social Medicine , forthcoming.
Fran Baum, Sarah Simpson (2006) Building Healthy and Equitable Societies: what Australia can contribute to and learn from the Commission on Social Determinants of Health , Australian Journal of Health Promotion , 17, 3, 174-179
Lareen Newman, Fran Baum, Liz Harris (2006) Federal, state and territory government responses to health inequities and the social determinants of health in Australia, Australian Journal of Health Promotion , 17, 3, 217-225
David McCoy, Ravi Narayan, Fran Baum, David Sanders, Hani Serag, Jane Salvage, Mike Rowson, Ted Schrecker, David Woodward, Ron Labonte, Amit Sengupta, Arturo Qizphe, Claudio Schuftan (2006) A new Director General for the World Health Organisation - an opportunity for bold and inspirational leadership, The Lancet , forthcoming
Jackie Street , Fran Baum, Ian Anderson (2006) How do we get research processes that reflect community priorities? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, under review
Anna M Ziersch, Fran Baum, I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan, Anne M Kavanagh, Social capital and health in rural and urban communities in South Australia, Health and Place, under review
Catherine Palmer, Fran Baum, Anna Ziersch, Lisel O'Dwyer (2006) Place effects on health: Challenges and insights from an Australian multi-methodological project" Invited submission to Special Issue Placing Health in Context of Social Science & Medicine, under review
Catherine R. Chittleborough, Fran E. Baum , Anne W. Taylor, Janet E. Hiller (2006) A life course approach to measuring socioeconomic position in population health surveillance systems, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, forthcoming
Lisel O'Dwyer, Fran Baum, Anne Kavannagh, Colin MacDougall (2006) Do area based interventions to reduce health inequalities work? A systematic review of evidence. Critical Public Health Under review
What makes for sustainable Healthy Cities initiatives?--a review of the evidence from Noarlunga after 18 years Fran Baum, Gwyn Jolley, Richard Hicks, Kate Saint and Steve Parker view article, view appendix
David Sanders, Ronald Labonte, Fran Baum, Micky Chopra (2004) Making Research Matter : A Civil Society Perspective on Health Research, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, accepted
Catherine Hurley, Fran Baum, Helen Van Eyk (2004) Designing Better Health Care in the South: A case study of unsuccessful transformational change in public sector health service reform, Australian Journal of Public Administration, June, 63, 2, 31-41
Fran Baum (2004) Entry on World Health Organization
in Martin Griffiths (ed.) Encyclopedia of International Relations
and Global Politics, London: Routledge
Fran Baum, David Sanders, Haile M. Kahssay, Paul
Laris (2003) Local Civil Society Groups Play a Role in Health Promotion:
Findings From An Australian and South African Study, Bulletin
of the World Health Organization, Under Review
Anna Ziersch, Fran Baum, Colin MacDougall, Christine
Putland (2003) Neighbourhood life and social capital: the implications
for health, Submitted to Social Science and Medicine
Anna Ziersch and Fran Baum (2003) Involvement
in civil society groups: is it good for your health? Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health, forthcoming
Fran Baum, Helen Van Eyk and Catherine Hurley
(2003) Tension, conflict and uncertainty: key features of reform
processes from an Australian case study of health services, submitted
to Critical Public Health
Fran Baum (2003) Primary Health Care: can the
dream be revived? Development in Practice forthcoming
Helen van Eyk and Fran Baum (2003) Evaluating
health system change – Using focus groups and a developing
discussion paper to compile the “voices from the field”,
Qualitative Health Research, 13, 2, February, 281-286
Fran Baum and Anna Ziersch (2003) Social Capital
Glossary, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,
May, 57, 5, 320-323
Catherine Hurley, Helen van Eyk, Fran Baum (2002)
Insider knowledge and outsider objectivity– the benefits and
risks of combined evaluator roles in a study of health care reform,
Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 2, 2, 60-68
Fran Baum (2002) Health and greening the city:
setting for health promotion: the importance of an evidence base,
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 56, 12, 897-8
Fran Baum and Helen Van Eyk (2002) Learning about
interagency collaboration – trialing collaborative projects
between hospitals and community health services, Health and
Social Care in the Community, 10 (4) 262-269
Fran Baum and Helen Keleher (2002) Public Health
Contribution for Medical Journal of Australia’s Update, January 7th
Fran Baum and Catherine Palmer (2002) Opportunity
Structures; Urban landscape, social capital and health promotion,
Health Promotion International, 17, 4, 351-361
Helen Van Eyk, Fran Baum and Graeme Houghton (2001)
Coping with health care reform, Australian Health Review,
24, 2, 202-206
Helen Van Eyk, Fran Baum, John Blandford (2001)
Evaluating Health Care Reform – the challenge of evaluating
changing policy environments, Evaluation, 7, 4, 487-503
Fran Baum (2001) Health, equity, justice and globalisation:
some lessons from the People’s Health Assembly, Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55, 9, 613-616
Fran Baum (2001) Speaker’s Corner: Just
imagine politicians working for health equity, Journal of Epidemiology
and Community Health, 55: 290
Anne Johnson and Fran Baum (2001) Health Promoting
Hospitals: the crucial importance of organisational change and development,
Health Promotion International, 16, 3, 281-287
Book Chapters
Fran Baum and Angela Lawless (2006) Opposing the Motion that "Family Medicine should emphasise personal care" Stephen Buetow et al (eds.) Ideological Debates in Family Medicine
Fran Baum (2006) Social Capital and Indigenous Health. Chapter in Carson, B. Bailie R (Eds) Social Determinants of Indigenous Health, Melbourne : Allen & Unwin
Fran Baum (2006) Dilemmas in public health research: methodologies and ethical practice. Chapter in Jenny Douglas (Ed.) Promoting Public Health, Milton Keynes : Open University Press
Fran Baum (2005) Community health services in Australia , chapter in John Germov (ed.) Second Opinion, Melbourne : Oxford University Press 3rd Edition
Fran Baum (2003) The Effectiveness of Community-Based Health Promotion in Healthy Cities Programmes: issues of measurement and evaluation, Chapter in Takano, T (ed.) Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research, London : Spoon Press F
Fran Baum (2002) Community health services in Australia , chapter in John Germov (ed.) Second Opinion, Melbourne : Oxford University Press
Bush, Robert and Baum, Fran (2001) Health inequities, community and social capital, Chapter 13 in Eckersley, R. Dixon, J. Douglas R. (eds.) The Social Origins of Health and Well-Being, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp. 189-204
Fran Baum (2003) The Effectiveness of Community-Based
Health Promotion in Healthy Cities Programmes: issues of measurement
and evaluation, Chapter in Takano, T (ed.) Healthy Cities and
Urban Policy Research, London: Spoon Press
Fran Baum (2002) Community health services
in Australia, chapter in John Germov (ed.) Second Opinion,
Melbourne: Oxford University Press
Bush, Robert and Baum, Fran (2001) Health inequities,
community and social capital, Chapter 13 in Eckersley, R. Dixon,
J. Douglas R. (eds.) The Social Origins of Health and Well-Being,
Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp. 189-204.
Government, International Agencies and Research Reports
Jackie Street , Fran Baum, Ian Anderson Quality in Indigenous Research Grant Assessment, CRCAH, 2006
Andrew Beer, Fran Baum, Holli Thomas, Gwyn Jolley et al (2006) Report to the SA Department of Health on Stage 1 of the Study of a closure of a automotive plant, Flinders University.
Keynote, Plenary and Invited Addresses
Fran Baum (2006) Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Keynote Address, Health Promotion Dreaming Shifting the Sands, 16th National Health Promotion Conference, 23-26 April, Alice Springs
Fran Baum (2006) Invited speaker panel on intersectoral action for women's health, Victoria Women's Network state wide conference, July.
Fran Baum (2006) Action on the Social Determinants of Health, Plenary Address, Annual Public Health Association of Australia Conference, Sydney, October.
Other Conference Papers
Baum, F Ziersch A, O'Dwyer, L Jolley, G Zhang, G Newman L (2006) Health Effects of job loss from an automotive plant, 3 rd Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health , Adelaide September 11-13 th .
Baum, F Ziersch, A. Palmer, C. Zhang, G. Putland, C. O'Dwyer, L. (2006) Effects of location on health, social capital and equity in Adelaide, 3 rd Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health , Adelaide September 11-13 th
Putland, C. Palmer, C. Baum, F. Ziersch, A. (2006) Lay conceptions of health inequities: informing policy and program responses in Australia . Paper presented at 37 th Annual Public Health Association of Australia , Sydney , October.
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