Publications 2007
Newman L (2007), Research on health inequalities and social determinants of health , SADI Statewide (Newsletter of the SA Divisions of General Practice), 3(2):10-12. View publication
Newman L, F Baum & E Harris (2007), What are Australian Governments and Health Departments doing to Build Health Equity? , presentation to the Australian Health Promotion Association 17th National Conference, 1-4 May, Adelaide.
Newman L , Biedrzycki K, Patterson J & Baum F (2007). A Rapid Appraisal Case Study of South Australia's Social Inclusion Initiative. Report prepared for the Social Exclusion Knowledge Network of the World Health Organisation's Commission on Social Determinants of Health by the Australian Health Inequities Program (Discipline of Public Health, Flinders University of South Australia) and the Social Inclusion Unit (Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Government of South Australia), Adelaide , Australia , 80pp. View publication
Publications 2006
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
Catherine Palmer, Fran Baum , Anna Ziersch, Lisel O'Dwyer (2006) Place effects on health: Challenges and insights from an Australian multi-methodological project, accepted Social Science and Medicine, not yet in press
Arthurson, K., Ziersch A. & Long, V. 2006. Community housing: Can it assist tenants to develop labour market skills? Just Policy , 39, pp.13-22.
Baum, F., 2006, Social capital and indigenous health. Chapter in Carson , B. Bailie R (Eds.) Social Determinants of Indigenous Health , Melbourne, Allen & Unwin.
Turrell G, Kavanagh AM , Draper G, Subramanian SV. Do places affect the probability of death in Australia? A multilevel study of area-level disadvantage, individual-level socioeconomic position, and all-cause mortality, 1998-2000. Submitted to the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (accepted for publication 12 May 2006)
Kavanagh AM , Bentley R , Turrell G, Broom DB, Subramanian SV. Does gender modify associations between social capital and self-rated health? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2006 Jun;60(6):490-5 Online: view extract
Kavanagh AM , Turrell G, Subramanian SV. Does area based social capital matter for the health of Australians: A multilevel analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2006;35(3):607-13
Turrell G, Kavanagh AM and Subramanian SV. Area variation in mortality in Tasmania (Australia): the contributions of socioeconomic disadvantage, social capital and geographic remoteness. Health and Place 2006;12 (3):291-305
King T, Kavanagh AM , Jolley D, Turrell G, Crawford D. Weight and place: a multilevel cross-sectional survey of area-level social disadvantage and overweight/obesity in Australia . Int J Obes (Lond). 2006: 30 (2):281-7 Online: view abstract
Newman L , F Baum & E Harris (forthcoming), 'Federal, state and territory government responses to health inequities and the social determinants of health in Australia ", Health Promotion Journal of Australia , accepted for December 2006 issue.
Turrell G, Kavanagh AM . Socio-economic pathways to diet: Modelling the association between socio-economic position and food-purchasing behaviour. Public Health Nutrition. 2006 May; 9, (3), 375-83 Online: view abstract
A Beer, F Baum, H Thomas, D Lowry, C Cutler, G Zhang, G Jolley, A Ziersch, F Verity, C MacDougall and L Newman (2006). Report to SA Department of Health HSRIP, An Evaluation of the Impact of Retrenchment at Mitsubishi, Focussing on Affected Workers, their Families and Communities: Implications for Human Services Policies and Practices, Discipline of Public Health, Flinders University , South Australia . View full report and project overview.
Baum F, G Zhang, G Jolley, A Ziersch & L Newman (2006), The health status of retrenched Mitsubishi workers in South Australia, Flinders University Symposium on The Social, Economic and Health Impacts of Restructuring in the Automotive Industry', McLaren Vale South Australia, November 29-30. Link to full report.
Baum F, G Zhang, G Jolley, A Ziersch & L Newman (2006), Health effects of job loss in an automotive plant , presentation to the International Society for Equity In Health (ISEqH) 4th Biennial International Conference, Adelaide, September 11-13. Link to full report.
Newman L, F Baum & E Harris (2006), Federal, state and territory government responses to health inequities and the social determinants of health in Australia , Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 17(3): 217-225. www.healthpromotion.org.au
Newman L , F Baum & E Harris (2006), Australian Governments & Health Inequities Project , Australian Health Inequities Program, Flinders University of South Australia View project and publications
Publications 2005
Anne Kavanagh, Jane Goller, Tania King, Damien Jolley, David Crawford and Gavin Turrell (2005) Urban area disadvantage and physical activity: a multilevel study in Melbourne Australia, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59, 934-940 Online: view abstract
Fran Baum (2005) Wealth and health - the need for more strategic public health research, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59, (7), 542-545. Online: view abstract
Catherine Palmer, Anna Ziersch , Kathy Arthurson, Fran Baum (2005) 'Danger lurks around every corner': fear of crime and its impact on opportunities for social interaction in stigmatised Australian suburbs, Urban Policy and Research , forthcoming. Online: view full text
Fran Baum (2005) Who cares about Health for All in the 21 st Century? Editorial Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , forthcoming.
Anna Ziersch, Fran Baum , Colin MacDougall, Christine Putland (2005) Neighbourhood life and social capital: the implications for health, Social Science and Medicine, 60, (1), 71-86
Fran Baum (2005) Wealth and health - the need for more strategic public health research, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59, 7, 542-545
Peter Nixon, Fran Baum, Sue Richardson, Christine Putland (2005) Impact of employment tenure on perceived health status: exploratory study of young adults, Australian Journal of Health Promotion, under review
Fran Baum (2005) Who cares about Health for All in the 21st Century? Editorial Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59, 714-715
Anna Ziersch , Fran Baum, Colin MacDougall, Christine Putland (2005) Neighbourhood life and social capital: the implications for health, Social Science and Medicine , 60, (1), 71-86. Online: View full text
Anna Ziersch and Kathy Arthurson (2005) Social networks in public and community housing: the impact on employment outcomes, Urban Policy and Research, 23, (4), 427-443.
Anna M. Ziersch (2005) The health implications of access to social capital: Findings from an Australian study, Social Science and Medicine , 61, 2119-2131. Online: View full text
Publications 2004
Catherine Palmer, Anna Ziersch, Kathy Arthurson, Fran Baum (2004) Challenging the stigma of public housing: preliminary findings from a qualitative study in South Australia, Urban Policy and Research, 22, 4, 411-426
David McCoy, David Sanders, Fran Baum , Thelma Narayan, David Legge (2004) Pushing the international health research agenda towards equity and effectiveness, The Lancet, 364, October 30th, 1630-1631
Publications 2003
Fran Baum and Anna Ziersch (2003) Social Capital Glossary, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, May, 57, 5, 320-323
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 (2003) Primary Health Care: can the dream be revived? Development in Practice, 13, 5, 515-519
Publications 2002
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
Books and manuals
Fran Baum (2002) The New Public Health, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, (reprinted 2003, 2004, 2005 (x2), 2006) 607pp
Publications 2001
Fran Baum (2001) Speaker's Corner: Just imagine politicians working for health equity, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55: 290
Fran Baum (2001) Health, equity, justice and globalisation: some lessons from the People's Health Assembly, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55, 9, 616-616
Books and manuals
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
Publications 1995
Books and manuals
Fran Baum (editor) (1995) Health for All: The South Australian Experience, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 505pp.