MUNI HEALTH AND SAFETY STUDY BIBLIOGRAPHY

August, 1998

CONTENTS

· Publications

· Presentations

· Reports

· Conferences and symposia organized by the research group

· Dissertations

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Ragland DR, Winkleby MA, Schwalbe J, Holman BL, Morse L, Syme SL, Fisher JM. Prevalence of hypertension in bus drivers. Int J Epidemiol, 1987;16:208-14.
  2. Sharp DS, Becker CE, Smith AH. Chronic low-level lead exposure. Its role in the pathogenesis of hypertension. Med Toxicol, 1987;2:210-32.
  3. Syme SL. Coronary artery disease. Circulation, 1987;76(1 Pt 2):I112-6.
  4. Sharp DS, Osterloh J, Becker CE, Bernard B, Smith AH, Fisher JM, Syme SL, Holman BL, Johnson T. Blood pressure and blood lead concentration in bus drivers. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1988;78:131-7.
  5. Winkleby MA, Ragland DR, Syme SL. Self-reported stressors and hypertension in bus drivers: Evidence of an inverse association. Am J Epidemiol, 1988;127:124-34.
  6. Winkleby MA, Ragland DR, Fisher JM, Syme SL. Excess risk of sickness and disease in bus drivers: A review and synthesis of epidemiological studies. International Journal of Epidemiology, 1988;17:255-62.
  7. Winkleby MA, Ragland DR, Syme SL, Fisher JM. Heightened risk of hypertension among black males: The masking effects of covariables. American Journal of Epidemiology, 1988;128:1075-1073.
  8. Sharp DS, Osterloh J, Becker CE, Smith AH, Holman BL, Fisher JM. Elevated blood pressure in treated hypertensives with low-level lead accumulation. Archives of Environmental Health, 1989;44:18-22.
  9. Sharp DS, Benowitz NL, Osterloh JD, Becker CE, Smith AH, Syme SL. Influence of race, tobacco use, and caffeine use on the relation between blood pressure and blood lead concentration. American Journal of Epidemiology, 1990;131:845-54.
  10. Ragland DR, Fisher JM, Hundenski RJ. Traffic Collisions and Traffic Density. ITS Review, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, May 1990.
  11. Krause N. "Driving motor vehicles - a risk for low back pain and herniated lumbar disk? A review of the literature." Study of stress and hypertension in Muni transit operators: supporting documents for summary report, document no. 11, Center for Municipal Occupational Health and Safety and School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, 1991.
  12. Ragland DR; Hundenski RJ; Holman BL; Fisher JM. Traffic volume and collisions involving transit and nontransit vehicles. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 1992 Oct, 24(5):547-58.
  13. Albright CL; Winkleby MA; Ragland DR; Fisher J; Syme SL. Job strain and prevalence of hypertension in a biracial population of urban bus drivers [see comments]. American Journal of Public Health, 1992 Jul, 82(7):984-9.
  14. Krause N. Work-disability and low back pain: A new classification model for research and intervention. Publication Series of the Research Group "Health Risks and Preventive Policy", Social Science Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung), Berlin 1993, p.1-60.
  15. Krause N. Prevention of long-term disability due to low back pain among San Francisco bus drivers, in: European Research Approaches for the Human Centered Design of Work of Drivers in Public Urban Transport Systems, Publication Series of The Federal Agency for Occupational Health and Safety (Schriftenreihe der Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz), Tb 62, Wirtschaftsverlag, NW, Bremerhaven, 1993, p. 162-167.
  16. Greiner B, Syme SL. Individual or environmental risk factors? -Epidemiological approaches and examples for prevention with San Francisco bus drivers. (in German) In: R. Rosenbrock, H. Kuehn, B.K. Koehler (eds.) In: Disease Prevention, Politics and Policies. Sigma, Berlin 1994.
  17. Krause N and Ragland DR. Occupational disability due to low back pain: A new interdisciplinary classification based on a phase model of disability. Spine 1994; 19(9):1011-1020.
  18. Fisher JM, Ragland DR, Greiner BA. Occupational health and safety of urban transit operators: An overview of cardiovascular disease. Urban Transport, March 1995.
  19. Ragland DR, Greiner BA, Krause N, Holman BL, Fisher JM. Occupational and nonoccupational correlates of alcohol consumption in urban transit operators. Preventive Medicine, 1995, 24:634-45.
  20. Fisher JM. Urban Transport, March/April 1996.
  21. Ragland DR, Ames GM. Current Developments in the Study of Stress and Alcohol Consumption. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 1996 Nov, 20(8):51A-53A.
  22. Krause N, Ragland DR, et al. Physical workload and ergonomic factors associated with prevalence of back and neck pain in urban transit operators. Spine, 1997, 22(18).
  23. Krause N, Ragland DR, et al. Psychosocial job factors associated with back and neck pain in public transit operators. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Environmental Health, 1997, 23(3):179-86.
  24. Greiner BA. Job stress in urban transport: Worksite observations as tool for analysis. Urban Transport, April/May 1997.
  25. Greiner BA, Ragland DR, Syme SL, Fisher JM. Objective measurement of occupational stress factors in the context of epidemiological studies—An example with San Francisco Urban Transit Drivers. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 2, 1-18 (1997).
  26. Ragland DR, Greiner BA, Fisher JM, Holman BH. Hypertension in transit vehicle operators in the San Francisco Municipal Railway: An increase with years of driving. Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine 25, 271-279 (1997)
  27. Ragland, D.R., Krause, N., Greiner, B.A., and Fisher, J.M. "Studies of Health Outcomes in Transit Operators: Policy Implications of the Current Scientific Database," Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 3(2):172-187, 1998.
  28. Greiner BA, Krause N, Fisher JM. Objective stress factors, accidents and absenteeism in transit operators: A theoretical framework and empirical evidence. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 3(2):130-146, 1998.
  29. Krause N, Ragland DR, Syme SL. Psychosocial risk factors for work-related spinal injuries: evidence from the San Francisco bus driver study with five years of follow up. In press.
  30. Yen, I.H., Ragland, D.R., Greiner, B.A., and Fisher, J.M. "Workplace Discrimination and Alcohol Consumption: Findings from the San Francisco Muni Health and Safety Study," submitted for publication, 1998.
  31. Yen, I.H., Ragland, D.R., Greiner, B.A., and Fisher, J.M. "Racial Discrimination and Alcohol Consumption in Urban Transit Operators: Findings from the San Francisco MUNI Health and Safety Study," submitted for publication, 1998.
  32. Ragland, D.R., Yen, I.H., Greiner, B.A., Krause, N., Holman, B.L., and Fisher, J.M. "Occupational Stress and Alcohol-Related Behavior in Urban Transit Operators," submitted for publication, 1998.
  33. Ragland, D.R., Krause, N., Yen, I.H., Greiner, B.A., Holman, B.L., and Fisher, J.M. "Overall Alcohol Consumption and Incidence of Workers' Compensation Injuries: A Five-Year Prospective Study of Urban Transit Operators," submitted for publication, 1998. -

PRESENTATIONS/ABSTRACTS

  1. Syme SL. The first John Cassel Memorial Lecture. The social environment and disease: Towards a proper epidemiology. Presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Winnipeg, Canada, June, 1983.
  2. Syme SL, Ragland DR, Holman BL, Morse L, Fisher JM. Hypertension in San Francisco Bus Drivers: Preliminary considerations with emphasis on psychosocial factors. Presented at the Conference on Stress and Health in Transit Workers, 1984.
  3. Ragland DR. The San Francisco Study of Stress and Hypertension in Bus Drivers. Presented at the Conference on Health and Safety in Bus Drivers, San Francisco, January, 1985.
  4. Winkleby MA, Ragland DR, Syme SL. Self-reported stressors and hypertension: Evidence of and inverse association. Presented at the Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine, Epidemiology, Biostatistics Training Session, American Heart Association Conference on Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Charleston, March, 1987.
  5. Fisher JM, Antonio R, Ragland DR. Health and safety of transit workers: Collaboration between unions and researchers. Panel discussion presentation at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, October, 1987.
  6. Winkleby MA, Ragland DR, Syme SL, Fisher JM. Race and prevalence of hypertension: The effect of negative confounding. Presented at Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Vancouver, Canada, June, 1988.
  7. Ragland DR, Hundenski R, Holman B, Fisher JM. A Study of Traffic Accidents in the San Francisco Municipal Railway: Preliminary Results. Presented on the occasion of the Fifth Decade Celebration of the Institute of Transportation Studies, Department of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, February, 1989.
  8. Ragland DR, Hundenski RJ, Fisher JM. The Impact of Traffic Density on the Collision Rate in a Large Urban Transit System: An Exponential Relationship. Presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January, 1990
  9. Update of recent findings from the Study of Stress and Hypertension in MUNI transit operators. Presentation to management and labor representatives, Spring, 1990.
  10. Fisher JM and Ragland DR. Interim Report to the Transport Workers Union/San Francisco Municipal Railway Trust Fund, September 1990.
  11. Greiner BA. Health is more than the absence of disease - What is the role of work? Annual Conference of the German Association for Behavioral Therapy (DGVT), Berlin, 1990
  12. Working conditions in white-collar work and health. Biennial International Symposium of Occupational Psychology, Zürich, 1990.
  13. Ragland DR. Urban Bus Safety. Presented at the Fall, 1991 Meeting of the Traffic Safety Forum, Sponsored by the University of California, Center for Transportation Studies, September, 1991.
  14. Ragland DR. Factors in Urban Transit Accidents: A Case Study of San Francisco's Muni System. Presented at the Transportation Science Seminar, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, September, 1991.
  15. Greiner BA. Objective stress factors in blue-collar and white-collar work: examples from Germany. International Conference Stress in the 90's: A changing workforce in a changing workplace, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington DC, 1992.
  16. Greiner BA. Combining public health and organizational psychology. Biennial Symposium on Occupational Psychology, Zürich, 1993.
  17. Fisher J, Greiner B, Ragland DR. Is Driving a Risky Job? Presentation at 7 different Joint Labor Management Worksite Committees at Muni, 1994.
  18. Krause N. Work Disability and Low Back Pain: A New Interdisciplinary Classification Model for Research and Intervention. Paper presented at the 12th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, Toronto, Canada, August 1994.
  19. Greiner B. Stress in the Workplace: German Approaches. Paper presented at the Conference for Stress in the Workplace: New Looks, New Tools, New Action, organized by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and by the Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.C. Berkeley, August 1994.
  20. Fisher JM, Ragland DR. Worksite Factors in Primary Prevention of Alcohol and Related Problems: Policy, Research and Intervention. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C., 1994.
  21. Greiner B, Ragland DR: Worksite Factors and Alcohol Problems in an Ethnically Diverse, Blue-Collar Population. Abstract accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C., 1994.
  22. Greiner BA. Objective measurement of workplace factors: Stress and skill utilization. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, 1995 (invited presentation).
  23. Greiner BA, Krause N, Ragland DR, Fisher JM. Objective measurement of stress factors - Methodological and theoretical considerations. International Conference on Work, Stress, and Health '95, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, American Psychological Association, Washington DC, 1995.
  24. Greiner BA, Ragland DR, Syme SL, Fisher JM. Occupational stress and urban transit drivers. International Conference on Work, Stress, and Health '95, National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health, American Psychological Association, Washington DC, 1995.
  25. Greiner BA. Combining epidemiological and organizational analysis: A new approach in stress research. Symposium in the Honor of S.L. Syme, University of California, Berkeley. September, 1995.
  26. Fisher JM, Greiner BA, Ragland DR, Krause N. Muni Health and Safety Project. Meeting of San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). San Francisco, April 3, 1996.
  27. Greiner BA, Ragland DR, June JM. Self-report versus observational measures in studies of environmental stress and alcohol outcomes. Annual Meeting of the Research Society On Alcoholism (RSA), Washington DC, 1996.
  28. Greiner BA, Ragland DR, Fisher JM. Worker characteristics, work stressors, and alcohol consumption among transit workers. Working group on Work and Alcohol, National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, Washington, DC, 1996.
  29. Fisher JM, Greiner BA, Krause N, Ragland DR. Prevention of health problems. International Health and Safety Symposium, International Transport Worker Federation. London, England. June 1996.
  30. Fisher JM, Greiner BA, Krause N, Ragland DR. Prevention of health problems. International Health and Safety Symposium, International Transport Worker Federation. London, England. May 1997.
  31. Ragland DR, Fisher JM. Evaluation of national drug and alcohol testing in safety sensitive employees in the mass transit industry. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Substance Abuse Policy Research Program—1997 Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. December 16-17, 1997.
  32. Ragland DR, Yen IH, Greiner BA, Fisher JM. Occupational stressors, workplace culture, and alcohol-related behavior. Invited presentation in a symposium, "Work and Drinking: Implications for Prevention." [Susan Marin, Chair]. Annual Meeting of the Research Society On Alcoholism (RSA), Hilton Head, North Carolina, June , 1998.

 

REPORTS

  1. Fisher JM. Study of Stress and Hypertension among San Francisco Bus Drivers: Project Overview. September, 1983.
  2. Thompson DA. Interim report on accident frequency by source: San Francisco Municipal Railway, 1982 Data. Report to the Stress and Hypertension Project, Center for Municipal Occupational Safety and Health, San Francisco General Medical Center, November, 1983.
  3. Thompson DA. Ergonomics Component. Study of Stress and Hypertension in Muni Bus Operators, August 1983.
  4. Thompson DA. Inspection Trip to Evaluate New Prototype Bus Manufactured by Flyer Corporation for the San Francisco Muni Fleet. Study of Stress and Hypertension in Muni Bus Operators, November 1983.
  5. Thompson DA. Transit Bus Driver Selection--Its Impact on System Safety. Study of Stress and Hypertension in Muni Bus Operators, November 1983.
  6. Thompson DA. A comparison of bus and other motor vehicle traffic accident patterns. Study of Stress and Hypertension in Muni Bus Operators. June 1984.
  7. Thompson DA. Ergonomic Consulting for Transit Vehicles. Study of Stress and Hypertension in Muni Bus Operators, October 1986.
  8. Quinlan P. Report on noise, carbon monoxide, and lead exposure in San Francisco Bus Drivers. Report to the Study on Stress and Hypertension, 1985.
  9. Ragland DR, Winkleby M. Preliminary tables of demographic and occupational characteristics of MUNI bus drivers. Report to the Working Committee, Study of Stress and Hypertension, June, 1986.
  10. Fisher JM, Ragland DR. Update of recent findings from the Study of Stress and Hypertension in MUNI Transit Operators, Spring 1990.
  11. Fisher JM and Ragland DR. Interim Report to the Transport Workers Union/San Francisco Municipal Railway Trust Fund. September 1990.
  12. Mortality Follow-up in Muni Transit Operators Employed Between 1978 and 1988 Results and Recommendations. Research Staff, Muni Study of Stress and Hypertension, May 1991
  13. Controlled, Uncontrolled, and Untreated Hypertension in Muni Transit Operators: Results and Recommendations. Research Staff, Muni Study of Stress and Hypertension, July 1991
  14. Musculoskeletal Symptoms in Muni Transit Operators: Results and Recommendations. Research Staff, Muni Study of Stress and Hypertension, August 1991.
  15. Krause N. Driving Motor Vehicles-A Risk Factor for Low Back Pain and Herniation of the Lumbar Disc? Review of the Literature, Spring 1991.
  16. Krause N. Risk Factors for Low Back Pain in San Francisco Muni Vehicle Operators: Proposal for Ph.D. Project, July 1991.
  17. Ragland DR, Greiner B. Worksite Related Alcohol Behavior in Urban Transit Drivers. Working Documentation for Survey Instruments, February 1994.
  18. Greiner B. Instrument to Measure Objective Stress in the Workplace, 1994.

CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED BY RESEARCH GROUP

  1. International conference on health and safety in transit workers. Stockholm, Sweden, June 1983.
  2. International collaborative research conference on health in transit workers. Organized in conjunction with the Coordinating Council of the Bay Area Transit Unions, San Francisco CA, January, 1985.
  3. Health and safety of transit workers: Collaboration between unions and workers. Symposium organized at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. New Orleans, October, 1987.
  4. Fisher JM, Ragland DR. Worksite Factors in Primary Prevention of Alcohol and Related Problems: Policy, Research and Intervention. Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C., 1994.
  5. Fisher JM, Ragland DR. Occupational Stress and Urban Transit Drivers, and, Strategies for Intervention and Primary Prevention in Improving Outcomes in Urban Transit Drivers. Symposia at the APA/NIOSH Conference on Occupational Stress and Health, Washington, DC, September 1995
  6. Ragland DR, Ames GM. Organizers and Chairs for Symposium: Current developments in the study of stress and alcoholism. Research Society on Alcoholism / International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, Washington, DC, June 1996.
  7. Ragland DR, Ames GM. Current Developments in the Study of Stress and Alcohol Consumption. Joint RSA / ISBRA Scientific Meeting, Washington DC, June 1996.
  8. Ragland DR, Fisher JM. Intervention Strategies for Workplace Stressors. American Public Health Association—126th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 1998.

 

DISSERTATIONS

  1. Abernathy A. Role of anger in essential hypertension in Black bus drivers. Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley CA, 1985
  2. Winkleby M. Psychosocial factors in essential hypertension: Results in a study of bus drivers. Department of Biomedical and Environmental Health Science. School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley CA, 1987.
  3. Sharp D. Blood lead levels and hypertension in bus drivers. Department of Biomedical and Environmental Health Science. School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley CA, 1988.
  4. Krause N. Back and neck pain among San Francisco Bus Drivers: The role of biomechanical and psychosocial job factors. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. December 1995.
  5. Greiner B. Occupational Stress and Alcohol Consumption: Self-report versus observational data in San Francisco bus drivers. January 1996.

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