Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Author "Baum, Fran"
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Assessing the health impact of transnational corporations: its importance and a framework
Baum, Fran; Sanders, David; Fisher, Matt; Anaf, Julia; Freudenberg, Nicholas; Friel, S.; Labonte, Ronald; London, Leslie; Monteiro, Carlos; Scott-Samuel, Alex; Sen, Amit (BioMed Central, 2016)BACKGROUND: The adverse health and equity impacts of transnational corporations' (TNCs) practices have become central public health concerns as TNCs increasingly dominate global trade and investment and shape national economies. ... -
Health promotion in Australian multi-disciplinary primary health care services: case studies from South Australia and the Nothern Territory
Baum, Fran; Freeman, Toby; Sanders, David; Jolley, Gwyn; Lawless, Angela; Bentley, Michael; Värttö, Kaisu; Boffa, John; Labonte, Ronald (Oxford University Press, 2013)This paper reports on the health promotion and disease prevention conducted at Australian multi-disciplinary primary health care (PHC) services and considers the ways in which the organizational environment affects the ... -
How institutional forces, ideas and actors shaped population health planning in Australian regional primary health care organisations
Javanparast, Sara; Freeman, Toby; Baum, Fran; Labonté, Ronald; Ziersch, Anna; Mackean, Tamara; Reed, Richard; Sanders, David (BioMed Central, 2018)BACKGROUND: Worldwide, there are competing norms driving health system changes and reorganisation. One such norm is that of health systems’ responsibilities for population health as distinct from a focus on clinical ... -
Implementation, effectiveness and political context of comprehensive primary health care: preliminary findings of a global literature review
Labonte, Ronald; Sanders, David; Baum, Fran; Schaay, Nikki; Packer, Corinne (CSIRO, 2008)Primary health care (PHC) is again high on the international agenda. It was the theme of The World Health Report in 2008, thirty years after the Alma-Ata Declaration, and has been the topic of a series of significant ... -
Punching above their weight: a network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy
Baum, Fran; Popay, Jennie; Delany-Crowe, Toni; Schaay, Nikki; Sanders, David (BMC, 2018)BACKGROUND: Life expectancy initially improves rapidly with economic development but then tails off. Yet, at any level of economic development, some countries do better, and some worse, than expected – they either ... -
What is the difference between comprehensive and selective primary health care? Evidence from a five-year longitudinal realist case study in South Australia
Baum, Fran; Freeman, Toby; Lawless, Angela; Labonte, Ronald; Sanders, David (BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)BACKGROUND Since the WHO’s Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care (PHC) there has been debate about the advisability of adopting comprehensive or selective PHC. Proponents of the latter argue that a more ...