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66
Citations
21211
World Ranking
955
National Ranking
72

Overview

Fran Baum is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields including Health Professions and Social Sciences. Within these broad categories, their work particularly focuses on General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Health, Sociology and Political Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics covered in Baum's research address Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Health disparities and outcomes, Employment and Welfare Studies, Global Health Care Issues, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, and Global Health Workforce Issues.

Baum has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include the International Journal of Health Policy and Management, BMJ, Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Health Promotion International, and Social Science & Medicine.

Their recent academic papers include:

  • "Covid-19 pandemic and the social determinants of health," 2021, BMJ
  • "Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health," 2023, The Lancet
  • "The COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons on building more equal and sustainable societies," 2020, The Economic and Labour Relations Review
  • "Explaining covid-19 performance: what factors might predict national responses?," 2021, BMJ
  • "A glossary of theories for understanding power and policy for health equity," 2020, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

Frequent collaborators in Baum's work include Toby Freeman, Sharon Friel, Connie Musolino, M. Fisher, and Tamara Mackean. The volume of joint publications suggests ongoing research partnerships within their academic network.

Best Publications

  • Participatory action research

    Fran Baum;Colin James MacDougall;Danielle Smith

  • The new public health.

    Frances Baum

  • Researching public health: Behind the qualitative-quantitative methodological debate

    Frances Baum

  • Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health

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  • Covid-19 pandemic and the social determinants of health.

    Lauren Paremoer;Sulakshana Nandi;Hani Serag;Fran Baum;Fran Baum

  • Neighbourhood life and social capital: the implications for health

    Anna M Ziersch;Fran E Baum;Colin MacDougall;Christine Putland

  • Why Behavioural Health Promotion Endures Despite Its Failure to Reduce Health Inequities

    Fran Baum;Matthew Fisher

  • The new public health : an Australian perspective

    Frances Baum

  • Social capital: is it good for your health? Issues for a public health agenda.

    F Baum

  • 'Opportunity structures': urban landscape, social capital and health promotion in Australia.

    Fran Baum;Catherine Palmer

  • Epidemiology of participation: an Australian community study

    Frances E Baum;Robert A Bush;Carolyn C Modra;Charlie J Murray

  • The COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons on building more equal and sustainable societies

    Kristin van Barneveld;Michael Quinlan;Peter Kriesler;Anne Junor

  • Changes Not for the Fainthearted: Reorienting Health Care Systems Toward Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health

    Fran E. Baum;Monique Begin;Tanja A. J. J. Houweling;Sebastian Taylor

  • Cracking the nut of health equity: top down and bottom up pressure for action on the social determinants of health.

    Frances Baum

  • Do perceived neighbourhood cohesion and safety contribute to neighbourhood differences in health

    Fran E. Baum;Anna M. Ziersch;Guangyu Zhang;Katy Osborne

  • Social capital and health in rural and urban communities in South Australia

    Anna M Ziersch;Fran Baum;I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan;Anne M Kavanagh

  • Health promoting hospitals: a typology of different organizational approaches to health promotion

    Anne Johnson;Frances Baum

  • The Social Determinants of Mental Health: Implications for Research and Health Promotion

    Matthew Fisher;Fran Baum

  • The Devil's Advocate: A Strategy to Avoid Groupthink and Stimulate Discussion in Focus Groups:

    Colin MacDougall;Frances Baum

  • Involvement in civil society groups: is it good for your health?

    Anna Marie Ziersch;Fran Baum

  • Challenging the Stigma of Public Housing: Preliminary Findings from a Qualitative Study in South Australia

    Catherine Palmer;Anna Ziersch;Kathy Arthurson;Fran Baum

  • Community Health Worker Programs to Improve Healthcare Access and Equity: Are They Only Relevant to Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

    Sara Javanparast;Alice Windle;Toby Freeman;Fran Baum

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna Ziersch
Anna Ziersch Flinders University
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Ronald Labonté
Ronald Labonté University of Ottawa
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Elizabeth Harris
Elizabeth Harris University of New South Wales
Jennie Popay
Jennie Popay Lancaster University
Lynn Kemp
Lynn Kemp University of Sydney
Leslie London
Leslie London University of Cape Town
Lyndall Strazdins
Lyndall Strazdins Australian National University
Malcolm Battersby
Malcolm Battersby Flinders University

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