Frances Baum
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3887170 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Frances Baum |
| PRENOMES | Frances |
| SOBRENOME | Baum |
| ASSINATURA | BAUM F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Did Australian policy prepare for a harmful algal bloom with significant human health impacts? Analysis and lessons from South Australia
A harmful algal bloom (HAB) has spread to a third of South Australia’s coasts, has devastated marine life and is affecting human physical and mental health and the fishing and tourism industries. We examine Australian Federal and State environmental and agricultural public policies to determine how well they were prepared to prevent and respond to a HAB with human health consequences. Document analysis techniques were used to examine the framing …
The health impacts of extractive industry transnational corporations
BACKGROUND: Operations of transnational corporations (TNCs) affect population health through production methods, shaping social determinants of health, or by influencing regulation of their activities. Research on community exposures to TNC practices and policies has been limited. Our research on extractive industries examined Rio Tinto in Australia and Southern Africa to test methods for assessing the health impacts of corporates in high and mid…
Health in All Policies in South Australia
Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a policy development approach that facilitates intersectoral responses to addressing the social determinants of health and health equity whilst, at the same time, contributing to policy priorities across the various sectors of government. Given that different models of HiAP have been implemented in at least 16 countries, there is increasing interest in how its effectiveness can be optimized. Much of the existing l…
Social determinants in an Australian urban region
Area-based strategies have been widely employed in efforts to improve population health and take action on social determinants of health (SDH) and health inequities, including in urban areas where many of the social, economic and environmental factors converge to influence health. Increasingly, these factors are recognized as being part of a complex system, where population health outcomes are shaped by multiple, interacting factors operating at …
The interplay between structure and agency in shaping the mental health consequences of job loss
Respondents' accounts support the literature on the moderating effects of economic resources such as redundancy packages. The results suggest the need for policies to put more focus on social, emotional and financial investment to mediate the structural constraints of job loss. Our study also suggests that human agency must be understood within an individual's whole of life circumstances, including structural and material constraints, and the per…
Policy environments and job loss
Job loss has negative consequences for health and evidence shows that the agency of workers experiencing job loss is affected by labour market and welfare policy. The policy environment into which workers emerge after losing their jobs strongly influences the way job loss and its aftermath is experienced. This article draws on findings from two waves of in-depth semi-structured interviews with 33 retrenched South Australian automotive workers. It…
The power of place
The Devil's Advocate
The focus group is an increasingly popular qualitative research method in health research to gain insight into complex problems. Concerns have been expressed about how best to stimulate free and open discussion; especially on controversial issues and/or when the group comprises people with different power and status. A potential pitfall of the focus group technique is group-think: the impact of censoring and conforming as described by such social…
Can health promotion and primary health care achieve Health for All without a return to their more radical agenda?
Primary health care (PHC) and health promotion (HP), codified in the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Ottawa Charter of 1986, and aiming to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 (HFA 2000), are strikingly similar in their conception and evolution. Originally conceived as global strategies to reduce inequities in health between and within nations and emphasising intersectoral and community action, both have tended to be reduced to a more lim…
Researching public health
Healthy Cities Australia
This paper reports on the evaluation of the Healthy Cities (Noarlunga) Project which was one of the three original pilot cities in the Australian Healthy Cities Project. The evaluation nethodology used is outlined the project's organization and activities, and the data (from a variety of sources) used to assess its achievements are discussed. These data were collected from a range of local informants including comnuinity members and from an analy…
The new public health
The new public health advocates a number of strategies to bring about structural change to improve health. Its rhetoric calls on professionals and bureaucrats to change their style of working. The assumption underlining the philosophy is that change can be achieved through consensus. This paper questions this assumption by reviewing contemporary and historic trends in the practice of health professionals and bureaucrats. It concludes that new pub…
Community-based research for promoting the new public health
The rhetoric of the new public health urges a focus on health promotion achieved through policy and structural change, and places emphasis on primary health care services based on community involvement. Research should contribute to the implementation of such policies at the local level. Methods for community-based research, however, are not well developed. This article, drawing on the experiences of a South Australian community health research u…
Shared Housing
Changing lifestyles mean that fewer people are living in traditional families and that demands for innovative styles of housing are increasing. Many young people live in shared houses. Such housing offers relatively cheap and flexible accommodation and also has the potential to make a positive contribution to individuals' quality of life. This paper considers the factors that contribute to the success of these households: successful conflict mana…
Voluntary childlessness and contraception
The attitudes of 38 voluntarily childless husbands and wives towards contraception were studied. The couples used a range of birth control methods, the most popular being the pill. Although sterilization appears to be the optimal method of contraception for couples who do not want children, several disincentives to it were mentioned. Broadly these are the finality of surgical sterilization, the dislike some individuals have for undergoing surgery…
Voluntarily Childless Marriages
Five years ago a conference on Children and Marriage would probably not have included a paper on marriages without children. Having children in marriage conforms to one of society's strongest expectations; conversely not having any is portrayed as both undesirable and deviant. Society's prescriptions relating to parenthood have given rise to a number of assumptions about childless marriages. Briefly, these maintain that the causes of childlessnes…
Some characteristics of intentionally childless wives in Britain
Intentional childlessness in Britain has been investigated by means of a postal questionnaire survey of married women who to date had never had a child. These wives were categorized according to their fertility intentions. As a group the wives were well-educated, likely to be employed and to be married to men in professional or managerial occupations, although there were some with husbands in manual occupations. The main reason perceived by the w…
Researching public health
The power of place
Shared Housing
Changing lifestyles mean that fewer people are living in traditional families and that demands for innovative styles of housing are increasing. Many young people live in shared houses. Such housing offers relatively cheap and flexible accommodation and also has the potential to make a positive contribution to individuals' quality of life. This paper considers the factors that contribute to the success of these households: successful conflict mana…
Policy environments and job loss
Job loss has negative consequences for health and evidence shows that the agency of workers experiencing job loss is affected by labour market and welfare policy. The policy environment into which workers emerge after losing their jobs strongly influences the way job loss and its aftermath is experienced. This article draws on findings from two waves of in-depth semi-structured interviews with 33 retrenched South Australian automotive workers. It…
Some characteristics of intentionally childless wives in Britain
Intentional childlessness in Britain has been investigated by means of a postal questionnaire survey of married women who to date had never had a child. These wives were categorized according to their fertility intentions. As a group the wives were well-educated, likely to be employed and to be married to men in professional or managerial occupations, although there were some with husbands in manual occupations. The main reason perceived by the w…
Voluntary childlessness and contraception
The attitudes of 38 voluntarily childless husbands and wives towards contraception were studied. The couples used a range of birth control methods, the most popular being the pill. Although sterilization appears to be the optimal method of contraception for couples who do not want children, several disincentives to it were mentioned. Broadly these are the finality of surgical sterilization, the dislike some individuals have for undergoing surgery…
Voluntarily Childless Marriages
Five years ago a conference on Children and Marriage would probably not have included a paper on marriages without children. Having children in marriage conforms to one of society's strongest expectations; conversely not having any is portrayed as both undesirable and deviant. Society's prescriptions relating to parenthood have given rise to a number of assumptions about childless marriages. Briefly, these maintain that the causes of childlessnes…
Shared Housing
Changing lifestyles mean that fewer people are living in traditional families and that demands for innovative styles of housing are increasing. Many young people live in shared houses. Such housing offers relatively cheap and flexible accommodation and also has the potential to make a positive contribution to individuals' quality of life. This paper considers the factors that contribute to the success of these households: successful conflict mana…
Community-based research for promoting the new public health
The rhetoric of the new public health urges a focus on health promotion achieved through policy and structural change, and places emphasis on primary health care services based on community involvement. Research should contribute to the implementation of such policies at the local level. Methods for community-based research, however, are not well developed. This article, drawing on the experiences of a South Australian community health research u…
The new public health
The new public health advocates a number of strategies to bring about structural change to improve health. Its rhetoric calls on professionals and bureaucrats to change their style of working. The assumption underlining the philosophy is that change can be achieved through consensus. This paper questions this assumption by reviewing contemporary and historic trends in the practice of health professionals and bureaucrats. It concludes that new pub…
Healthy Cities Australia
This paper reports on the evaluation of the Healthy Cities (Noarlunga) Project which was one of the three original pilot cities in the Australian Healthy Cities Project. The evaluation nethodology used is outlined the project's organization and activities, and the data (from a variety of sources) used to assess its achievements are discussed. These data were collected from a range of local informants including comnuinity members and from an analy…
Can health promotion and primary health care achieve Health for All without a return to their more radical agenda?
Primary health care (PHC) and health promotion (HP), codified in the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Ottawa Charter of 1986, and aiming to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 (HFA 2000), are strikingly similar in their conception and evolution. Originally conceived as global strategies to reduce inequities in health between and within nations and emphasising intersectoral and community action, both have tended to be reduced to a more lim…
Researching public health
The Devil's Advocate
The focus group is an increasingly popular qualitative research method in health research to gain insight into complex problems. Concerns have been expressed about how best to stimulate free and open discussion; especially on controversial issues and/or when the group comprises people with different power and status. A potential pitfall of the focus group technique is group-think: the impact of censoring and conforming as described by such social…
The power of place
The interplay between structure and agency in shaping the mental health consequences of job loss
Respondents' accounts support the literature on the moderating effects of economic resources such as redundancy packages. The results suggest the need for policies to put more focus on social, emotional and financial investment to mediate the structural constraints of job loss. Our study also suggests that human agency must be understood within an individual's whole of life circumstances, including structural and material constraints, and the per…
Policy environments and job loss
Job loss has negative consequences for health and evidence shows that the agency of workers experiencing job loss is affected by labour market and welfare policy. The policy environment into which workers emerge after losing their jobs strongly influences the way job loss and its aftermath is experienced. This article draws on findings from two waves of in-depth semi-structured interviews with 33 retrenched South Australian automotive workers. It…
Social determinants in an Australian urban region
Area-based strategies have been widely employed in efforts to improve population health and take action on social determinants of health (SDH) and health inequities, including in urban areas where many of the social, economic and environmental factors converge to influence health. Increasingly, these factors are recognized as being part of a complex system, where population health outcomes are shaped by multiple, interacting factors operating at …
Health in All Policies in South Australia
Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a policy development approach that facilitates intersectoral responses to addressing the social determinants of health and health equity whilst, at the same time, contributing to policy priorities across the various sectors of government. Given that different models of HiAP have been implemented in at least 16 countries, there is increasing interest in how its effectiveness can be optimized. Much of the existing l…
The health impacts of extractive industry transnational corporations
BACKGROUND: Operations of transnational corporations (TNCs) affect population health through production methods, shaping social determinants of health, or by influencing regulation of their activities. Research on community exposures to TNC practices and policies has been limited. Our research on extractive industries examined Rio Tinto in Australia and Southern Africa to test methods for assessing the health impacts of corporates in high and mid…
Did Australian policy prepare for a harmful algal bloom with significant human health impacts? Analysis and lessons from South Australia
A harmful algal bloom (HAB) has spread to a third of South Australia’s coasts, has devastated marine life and is affecting human physical and mental health and the fishing and tourism industries. We examine Australian Federal and State environmental and agricultural public policies to determine how well they were prepared to prevent and respond to a HAB with human health consequences. Document analysis techniques were used to examine the framing …
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