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Fran Baum
Other affiliations: People's Health Movement
Bio: Fran Baum is an academic researcher from Flinders University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social determinants of health & Health policy. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 321 publications receiving 12151 citations. Previous affiliations of Fran Baum include People's Health Movement.
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TL;DR: This glossary aims to clarify some of the key concepts associated with participatory action research.
Abstract: This glossary aims to clarify some of the key concepts associated with participatory action research.
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The politics, organisation, and sustainability of new public health initiatives in the twentieth century and how they change to support the environment and human health in the first century are examined.
Abstract: PART 1: APPROACHES TO PUBLIC HEALTH 1. Understanding health - definitions and perspectives 2. A history of public health 3. The new public health evolves PART 2: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUBLIC HEALTH 4. Politics and ideologies: the invisible hands of public health 5. Globalisation and health PART 3: RESEARCHING PUBLIC HEALTH 6. Research for a new public health 7. Epidemiology and public health 8. Survey research methods in public health 9. Qualitative research methods 10. Evaluation of community-based health promotion PART 4: PATTERNS OF HEALTH, ILLNESS AND MORTALITY 11. Changing health and illness profiles in the twentieth century: global and Australian perspectives 12. Social patterning of health 13. Health: an unequally distributed resource PART 5: UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS: GLOBAL AND AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES 14. Global physical threats to the environment and public health 15. Urbanisation, population, communities and environments: global trends PART 6: HEALTHY CHOICES: INDIVIDUALS, BEHAVIOUR AND COMMUNITIES 16. Medical interventions 17. Behavioural health promotion and its limitations 18. Health development and empowerment: communities and individuals 19. Organisational development: towards health-promoting organisations 20. Public health policy PART 7: HEALTHY SOCIETIES AND ENVIRONMENTS 21. Healthy economic policies 22. Cities, suburbs, and communities: how might they change to support the environment and human health? 23. Towards a more equitable society 24. Healthy Cities, Local Agenda 21, and Healthy Settings 25. The politics, organisation, and sustainability of new public health initiatives PART 8: PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 26. Linking the local, national and global Appendix 1: Public health keywords Appendix 2: Public health websites
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TL;DR: It is argued that social capital is multifaceted and its relationship with health is complex and that socio-economic factors are of relatively greater importance in determining health.
445 citations
TL;DR: This paper argues that the underlying issues are crucial to contemporary public health debates and the methods are simply tools that are used to further knowledge and have no inherent status as sound or unsound.
394 citations
TL;DR: Paremoer et al. as discussed by the authors called for action to create a fairer and more sustainable post-covid world, and proposed a sustainable postcovidian world.
Abstract: Lauren Paremoer and colleagues call for action to create a fairer and more sustainable post-covid world
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01 Jan 2016
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TL;DR: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) as mentioned in this paper was created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that global resources to counter disease emergence are poorly allocated, with the majority of the scientific and surveillance effort focused on countries from where the next important EID is least likely to originate.
Abstract: Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are a significant burden on global economies and public health. Their emergence is thought to be driven largely by socio-economic, environmental and ecological factors, but no comparative study has explicitly analysed these linkages to understand global temporal and spatial patterns of EIDs. Here we analyse a database of 335 EID 'events' (origins of EIDs) between 1940 and 2004, and demonstrate non-random global patterns. EID events have risen significantly over time after controlling for reporting bias, with their peak incidence (in the 1980s) concomitant with the HIV pandemic. EID events are dominated by zoonoses (60.3% of EIDs): the majority of these (71.8%) originate in wildlife (for example, severe acute respiratory virus, Ebola virus), and are increasing significantly over time. We find that 54.3% of EID events are caused by bacteria or rickettsia, reflecting a large number of drug-resistant microbes in our database. Our results confirm that EID origins are significantly correlated with socio-economic, environmental and ecological factors, and provide a basis for identifying regions where new EIDs are most likely to originate (emerging disease 'hotspots'). They also reveal a substantial risk of wildlife zoonotic and vector-borne EIDs originating at lower latitudes where reporting effort is low. We conclude that global resources to counter disease emergence are poorly allocated, with the majority of the scientific and surveillance effort focused on countries from where the next important EID is least likely to originate.
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TL;DR: As an example of how the current "war on terrorism" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says "permanently marked" the generation that lived through it and had a "terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century."
Abstract: The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic
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