The next meeting of the California Work & Health Study Group (CWHSG) was held in San Francisco on Monday, October 22nd at the UCSF School of Nursing. There was an open discussion from 10:00AM - 12:00 Noon in which participants had time to discuss their current work. The afternoon session (from 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM) included two presentations:
1) Dr. Julia Faucett reported on a new study involving OHN graduates. "We are developing an international network of researchers to investigate the working conditions, employment and migration patterns, and occupational illness and injury of registered nurses in various countries around the world. We are starting, more or less, with the Pacific Rim countries and have commitments from Australia, Philippines, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong to begin to plan for the survey and the procedures that we would all agree to use. We also have colleagues in the UK who have committed to participate. One central component of the plan is to link with university based schools of nursing to facilitate distribution of the survey. A workshop is planned in Kitakyushu in October.
2) Dr. Peter Schnall spoke about the Beijing Occupational Health Workshop on Job Stress. Please click here to access the PowerPoint presentation from this session of the CWHSG. Several organizers and participants (from a group including Dr. Paul Landsbergis, Dr. Dean Baker, Dr. Haiou Yang and Dr. Mo Wang) joined Dr. Schnall in discussing the conference as well as their trip to China (September 20th - October 7th, 2007).
For further information on attending this event, please email us at cse@workhealth.org.