under the auspices of ICOH (International Congress of Occupational Health)

was successfully held in Newport Beach
March 9th - 11th, 2005

see brochure

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

1:00-1:30 pm               OPENING SESSION – WELCOME:

1:30-2:30 pm               KEYNOTE: Tage Kristensen, Denmark: The Changing Nature of Work and Its Implication for Cardiovascular Diseases

2:40-4:10 pm               PLENARY 1: The Changing Nature of Work: Moderator - Paul Landsbergis , United States

Steve Sauter – USA : Changing organizational practices and job demands in the United States

Peter Smulders, Irene Houtman – Netherlands : Trends in job control and work pressure in the European Union

Johannes Siegrist, Simone Weyers – Germany : Threats to contractual fairness in a globalized labour market: contributions of the effort reward imbalance-model

Aleck Ostry – Canada : Impact of globalization on labour markets: Implications for research on job stress

4:30-6:00 pm            PARALLEL SESSIONS                               

W11    Workplace Change, Precarious Employment and Job Insecurity: Moderator - Steve Sauter, United States

Johannes Siegrist , Simone Weyers: Work, reward and health: The role of inquiry

Emile Tompa, Heather Scott, Roman Dolinschi: The health consequences of precarious employment experiences

Michael Ertel, Eberhard Pech, Peter Ullsperger: Stress and health in freelance media workers

Ellen Rosskam : Work-related stress: A 21^st century global disease

W12   Work Psychosocial Factors and CVD Risk Factors: Moderator - Ludovic Van Amelsvoort, Netherlands

Francoise Leynan, Clays E, De Backer G, De Bacquer D, Kornitzter M: Job stress is related to smoking cessation

Hynek Pikhart, Bobak M, Kubinova R, Malyutina S, Pajak A, Marmot M: The association between psychosocial characteristics at work and problem drinking in three Eastern European urban populations

Aleck Ostry , Samia Radi, Anthony D. LaMontagne: Job strain, effort-reward imbalance, organizational justice, work-life imbalance and Body Mass Index among Australian workers

Sharon Toker, Arie Sharon, Itzhak Shapira, Shlomo Berliner, Samuel Melamed : The association between burnout, depression and anxiety, and inflammation biomarkers: C-reactive protein and fibrinogen: comparing gender differences

W13   Biological Mechanisms: I: Moderator - Tores Theorell , Sweden

Sean Collins, Robert Karasek: Evidence of reduced vagal cardiac control variability in exhausted subjects and high strain job subjects

Robert Karasek, Sean Collins: A test of the stress-equilibrium model’s structural hypotheses: Depletion of Heart Rate Variability Control Capacity (HFPApEn) demonstrated during work/rest day stress

Simone Grebner, Elfering A, Semmer NK: Risk is other people? Impaired blood pressure recovery as a consequence of social stressors at work

Ta-Chen Su, Yuan-Teh Lee, Suzzana Chou, Wen-Tsan Hwang, Jung-Der Wang: Twenty-four-hour ambulatory blood pressure and duration of hypertension as major determinants for intima-media thickness and atherosclerosis of carotid arteries

W14  Work Psychosocial Factors and Psychological Outcomes: Moderator -  Dean Baker, United States

Annet de Lange, Taris TW, Jansen MAJ, Houtman ILD, Bongers, PM: Does the relation between work characteristics and activation-related health outcomes differ as a function of age?

Heather Laschinger, Joan Finegan: Job strain as a predictor of nurse burnout, health, and work effectiveness

John Violanti, Michael E. Andrew, Cecil M. Burchfiel, Diane B. Miller, Chris M. Beighley, Nedra Joseph, Dan S. Sharp: Self-reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress and subclinical cardiovascular disease markers in police officers

Reiner Rugulies, Ute Bultmann, Birgit Aust, Hermann Burr: A five-year prospective follow-up on the impact of the work environment on psychological distress

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

8:30-9:30 am                 KEYNOTE: Tores Theorell , Sweden : On the Social Dimensions in the Relationship between Psychosocial Working Conditions and Coronary Heart Disease

10:00-11:30 am             PLENARY 2: Work, Social Class & Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Moderator -   Carles Muntaner , Canada

Jeffrey Johnson – USA : The growing imbalance: class inequalities in work and health in an era of flexibilization

Carme Borrell – Spain : Public health research in Barcelona

Karen Messing, Ana Maria Seifert – Canada : Francophone ergonomic analysis as a method for combating gender inequality

Carles Muntaner - Canada: Social inequities and work organization as competing models

11:30 am -12:30 pm       POSTER SESSION

2:00-3:00 pm                KEYNOTE: Robert Karasek, United States : The Stress-Disequilibrium Model of Chronic Disease Development: Low Social Control and Physiological De-regulation

3:00-4:30 pm                PARALLEL SESSIONS

T11      A Stress-Disequilibrium Theory of Cardiovascular Disease – Panel Discussion: Moderator -  Dean Baker, United States

Discussants: Sean Collins, Ellen Rosskam, Robert Karasek, Tores Th eorell

T12   Interventions/Training: Moderator – Maritza Jauregui , United States  

Joel Bennett, Sue-Anne MacGregor: Web-based occupational/cardiovascular health education for business managers and executives

Peter Schnall, Maritza Jauregui, Paul Landsbergis, Dean Baker: Future training needs to address the problem of work related psychosocial stressors and health

Leslie Hammer , Robert Sinclair: Graduate training in occupational health psychology training programs

Wayne Lewchuck , David Robertson, Donald Cole, Ted Haines, Mickey Kerr: Unions, labour contracts and health outcomes

Birgit Aust, Antje Ducki: Comprehensive health promotion interventions at the workplace: Experiences with health circles in Germany

T13   Social Class and Cardiovascular Disease: Moderator - Jeff Johnson , United States

Johannes Siegrist, Nico Dragano, Simone Weyers, Raimund Erbel for the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Group: Socio-economic status, work-related stress and cardiovascular risk: effect modification

Heather Scott, Emile Tompa, et al: The health consequences of underemployment

Bongkyoo Choi, Robert Karasek, Per-Olof Ostegren, Marco Ferrario, Patrick de Smet for the JACE Study Group: An orthogonal relationship between social class gradient and job strain axis of the demand-control model

Marco Ferrario, Giovanni Veronesi, Giovanni Corrao, Carla Fornari, Roberto Sega, Rossana Borchini, Francesca Battaini, Giancarlo Cesana: Uneven differences in the risk of incident cardiovascular events among socio-occupational classes

T14   High Risk Occupations: Professional Drivers: Moderator – Finn Tuchsen , Denmark

Olutayo Ajayi: Altered fibrinolytic response in Nigerian long distance drivers

Finn Tuchsen, Hannerz H, Roepstorff C, Krause N: Stroke among male professional drivers in Denmark : 1994-2001

Jiu-Chiuan Chen, Yi-Jen Chen, Wushou P. Chang, David C. Christiani: Long driving time is associated with hematological markers of increased coronary risk among urban taxi drivers

Orawan Kaewboonchoo, Sumlee Saleekul, Toshio Kawai: Blood lead level and blood pressure among bus drivers in Bangkok , Thailand

5:00-6:30 pm                PARALLEL SESSIONS

T21   Shiftwork and Its Impact on Health: Moderator - Nik Krause , United States

Finn Tuchsen, Harald Hannerz, Christian Roepstorff, Hermann Burr: A 12-year prospective study of circulatory diseases among Danish shift workers

Ghasem Yadegarfar, Roseanne McNamee: Shift work, death from ischaemic heart disease, social class and healthy shift worker effect

LGPM van Amelsvoort, NWH Jansen, IJ Kant: Smoking among shift workers: More than a confounding factor

Ta-Chen Su, Lian-Yu Lin, Wen-Tsan Hwang, Yuan-Teh Lee, Chen-Fong Chen, Jung-Der Wang: Elevated blood pressure, decreased heart rate variability and delayed recovery after working on a 12-hour night shift

T22      Linking Occupational and Environmental Health: Diesel, Particles, and Cardiovascular Health: Moderator – Ralph Delfino, United States

Ed Avol: Mobile workers and mobile sources: Understanding exposure

Stacey Ritz: Diesel, particles, and cardiovascular health: The toxicological perspective

Ralph Delfino: Acute and long-term cardiovascular effects in workers and the general population

Sean Collins: Psychosocial factors and cardiovascular changes

T23   Issues in Measurement: Moderator - Paul Landsbergis , United States

Bongkoo Choi, Robert Karasek: Application of Differential Item Functioning (DIF)  analysis to the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ)

V. Bonneterre, Regis de Gaudemaris: Quantification of psychosocial and organization work factors (POWF): Special tools for health workers epidemiology

Robert Karasek: Status of JCQ 2.0: Results of the JCQ workshop March 8, 2005

Maritza Jauregui : Measurement issues involving social support

T24   Physical Exposures and CVD: Moderator - Dean Baker , United States

Sumlee Saleekul, Arpaporn Pauwattana, Orawan Kaewboonchoo: Hypertension among bus drivers in an urban area, Thailand

Hugh Davies, Weiwei Du, Paul Demers: Occupational exposure to noise and myocardial infarction morbidity

Zhao Yiming, Wang Linzhi: Hearing susceptibility: A new risk factor for noise induced hypertension in a working population

Siavash Banaee: The association between thermal conditions and cardiovascular diseases among i r o n and steel industry workers

FRIDAY, MARCH 11

8:30-10:15 am      PARALLEL SESSIONS (105 minute sessions)                                          

F11   Longitudinal Studies of Psychosocial Factors and CVD: Moderator - Peter Schnall, United States

Bo Netterstrom, Tage Kristensen, Anette Sjol: Self-reported job strain increases the risk of ischaemic heart disease: A 14-year cohort study of employed Danish men

Carla Fornari, Marco Ferrario, Roberto Sega, Giovanni Veronesi, Giovanni Corrao, Rossana Borchini, Giancarlo Cesana: Contrasting evidences on the association between job strain and coronary risk

Hugo Westerlund, Jane Ferrie, Gabriel Oxenstierna, Tores Theorell : Workplace expansion and hospitalization for cardiovascular diseases

Els Clays, Dirk De Bacquer, Edwin Pelfrene, Ruud Mak, Michel Moreau, Patrick De Smet, Marcel Kornitzer, Guy De Backer: Perceived job stress and incidence of coronary events: Three year follow-up of the BELSTRESS cohort

F12   Race, Gender and CVD: Moderator -  Karen Messing, Canada

Margaret Weden: Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in workplace conditions over the life course and the development of chronic disease

Xiao-Fei Zhang, Catherine D’Este, John Attia, Zhi-Hong Liu: The relationship between high blood pressure and coronary heart disease among Chinese and Caucasians:  A meta-analysis

Mireya Scarone, Leonor Cedillo: Thank you for calling Telmex, may I help you: Service interactions and psychosocial risk factors among telephone women workers in Mexico

Haiou Yang , Maritza Jauregui , Peter Schnall and Dean Baker: Work and Cardiovascular Health among Vietnamese Americans: A Pilot Study

Jinky Prado-Lu: Organizational factors that are associated with hypertension among women workers in industries that have accommodated information technology

F13   Biological Mechanisms: II: Moderator - Simone Grebner, Switzerland

Alderling M, Tores Theorell , Bergman P, Stoetzer U, de la Torre B, Lundberg I: Saliva cortisol – circadian variation in working men and women in relation to the demand/control model

Ase Marie Hansen, Garde AH, Persson R, Karlson B: Long working hours and salivary cortisol

Kumi Hirokawa, Akizumi Tsutsumi , Kazunori Kayaba: Psychosocial factors and plasma fibrinogen in Japanese females and male workers

Sean Collins, Robert Karasek: Within subject cardiac vagal response to work and rest day strain

10:45am -12:30 pm        PARALLEL SESSIONS (105 minute sessions)

F21   Job Strain and CVD: An International Perspective: Moderator - Bo Netterstrom, Denmark

Liying Xu, Weihua Cao, Liming Lee, Brian Tomlinson, Jean Woo, Juliana Chan: Job contents, family strain, psychosomatic symptoms and blood pressure among working women in Beijing

Akizumi Tsutsumi, Kazunori Kayaba, Kumi Hirokawa, Shizukiyo Ishikawa: Job strain and risk of stroke: a preliminary analysis among Japanese workers

Yawen Cheng, Shane-Haw Wang, Chi-Jane Wang, Shih-Hung Chan, Jyh-Hong Chen: Working hours, psychosocial job characteristics, and the incidence of acute myocardial infarction among middle-aged men in Taiwan

Els Clays, Francoise Leynen, Dirk De Bacquer, Marcel Kornitzer, Guy De Backer: Associations between job strain and ambulatory blood pressure

F22   Work Posture - An Emerging Risk Factor for Rising Blood Pressure Levels & CVD?: Moderator – Niklas Krause , United States

Finn Tuchsen, Krause N, Hannerz H, Burr H, Kristensen T: Standing at work and varicose veins

Eve Laperriere, Karen Messing: Standing, walking, blood pressure and pain: Are they linked?

Karen Messing, Stock S, Tissot F, Laperriere E, Couture V: Standing vs. walking: Can we distinguish them, and is the distinction important?

Niklas Krause, Dasinger LK, Brand R, Kaplan GA , Salonen JT: Standing, walking and climbing stairs at work associated with 11 year progression of artherosclerosis

Lisa Dasinger, Krause N, Brand R, Kaplan GA , Salonen JT.: Percent time at work in an upright posture associated with 11 year change in systolic blood pressure

F23   Large Population Studies: Moderator - Tage Kristensen , Denmark            

Leonor Cedillo, Gabriela Grijalva Monteverde: Analysis of psychosocial risk factors and trends of the employment market in Hermosillo , Sonora , Mexico

Francoise Leynen, G. De Backer, D. De Bacquer, E. Clays, M. Moreau, M. Kornitzer: Diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased incidence of sick leave from work in middle-aged men and women: the BELSTRESS study

Haiou Yang , Peter Schnall, Maritza Jauregui : Occupation and job characteristics variations in self-reported hypertension in working population of California

Alicja Bortkiewicz, K. Rydzynski: Cardiovascular diseases as an occupational health problem in Poland

Peter Smith, John Frank: Hours of work, measurement issues, trends and related social and health outcomes

2:00-3:00 pm                KEYNOTE: Norito Kawakami , Japan International Comparative Research on Work and Heart Disease

3:00-4:30 pm                PLENARY 3: International Comparative Research: Moderator: Akizumi Tsutsumi , Japan

Fumio Kobayashi, Kawakami N, Haratani T, Ishizaki M, Hayashi T, Fujuta O, Aizawa Y, Miyazki S, Hiro H, Masumoto T, Hashimoto S, Hori R, Araki S. –  The Japan Work Stress and Health Cohort Study Group: High job demands and its combination with low supervisor support at work predict acute myocardial infarction in Japanese men: A prospective cohort study

Yawen Cheng, Ke-Jong Chen, Chi-Jane Wang, Shih-Hung Chan, Wei-Ching Chang, Jyh-Hong Chen – Taiwan : Secular trends in coronary heart disease mortality, hospitalization rates, and major cardiovascular risk factors in Taiwan , 1971-2001

Arturo Juarez Garcia, Peter Schnall – Mexico : Job strain, personal control and other stressors in association with blood pressure, cardiovascular symptoms and mental health outcomes in Mexican nurses

Tania Araujo – Brazil : Reliability and validity of the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ): an empirical test in a developing country comparing formal and informal jobs

4:30-5:00 pm                CLOSING SESSION – Peter Schnall, Director, Center for Social Epidemiology              

6:30-10:30 pm              CONFERENCE DINNER CRUISE