4th International Conference on Work Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases

4^th ICOH Conference on Work Environment and Cardiovascular Disease

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

 

 

 

Time		Wednesday		Thursday		Friday
8:30				Keynote   Tores Theorell		Parallel Sessions
9:00		Pre-conference				F11, F12, F13
9:30		Workshop		Break
10:00				Plenary 2   Work, Social Class & CVD Risk
						Break
10:30
11:00						Parallel Sessions
11:30				Poster Session		F21, F22, F23
12:00
12:30
1:00		Opening Session Welcome Dean Baker & John Howard		Lunch		Lunch
1:30		Keynote   Tage Kristensen
2:00				Keynote   Robert Karasek		Keynote   Norito Kawakami
2:30		Plenary 1
3:00		The Changing nature of Work		Parallel Sessions		Plenary 3   International
3:30				T11, T12, T13, T14		Comparative Research
4:00		Break
4:30		Parallel Sessions		Break		Closing Session
5:00		W11, W12, W13, W14		Parallel Sessions   T21, T22, T23, T24		Break
5:30
6:00						6pm : Buses to dinner cruise
6:30		Reception		ICOH Business meeting 6:45-8:00 pm   Free evening Shuttle		Dinner cruise  6:30 – 10:30 pm
7:00				Buses to Laguna Beach

 

 

 

Wednesday, 9 March

 

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

                                                            Dean Baker, Director of UCI COEH

                                                            John Howard, Director of NIOSH

 

1:30-2:30 pm              KEYNOTE: Tage Kristensen, Denmark

 

The Changing Nature of Work and Its Implication for Cardiovascular Diseases (125)

 

2:30-2:40 pm              Break

 

 

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 (126)

 

Peter Smulders, Irene Houtman – Netherlands : Trends in job control and work pressure in the European Union (127)

 

Johannes Siegrist, Simone Weyers – Germany : Threats to contractual fairness in a globalized labour market: contributions of the effort reward imbalance-model (128)

 

Aleck Ostry – Canada : Impact of globalization on labour markets: Implications for research on job stress (129)

 

4:10-4:30 pm              Break

 

4:30-6:00 pm              PARALLEL SESSIONS

 

            W11    Workplace Change, Precarious Employment and Job Insecurity (till 6:15pm )

 

                        Moderator - Steve Sauter, United States

 

                        Johannes Siegrist , Simone Weyers: Work, reward and health: The role of inquiry (029)

 

                        Emile Tompa, Heather Scott, Roman Dolinschi: The health consequences of precarious employment experiences (053)

 

 

Michael Ertel, Eberhard Pech, Peter Ullsperger: Stress and health in freelance media workers (110)

 

                        Ellen Rosskam : Work-related stress: A 21^st century global disease (113)

                                         

            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 (020)

 

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 (098)

 

                        Aleck Ostry , Samia Radi, Anthony D. LaMontagne: Job strain, effort-reward imbalance, organizational justice, work-life imbalance and Body Mass Index among Australian workers (001)

 

                        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 (003)

 

                       

            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 (078)

 

                        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 (095)

 

                        Simone Grebner, Elfering A, Semmer NK: Risk is other people? Impaired blood pressure recovery as a consequence of social stressors at work (075)

 

                        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 (064)

 

             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? (057)

 

                        Heather Laschinger, Joan Finegan: Job strain as a predictor of nurse burnout, health, and work effectiveness (061)

 

                        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 (011)

 

                        Reiner Rugulies, Ute Bultmann, Birgit Aust, Hermann Burr: A five-year prospective follow-up on the impact of the work environment on psychological distress (054)

                       

6:30 – 8:30 pm             RECEPTION

 

 

Thursday, 10 March

 

8:30-9:30 am                KEYNOTE: Tores Theorell , Sweden

 

On the Social Dimensions in the Relationship between Psychosocial Working Conditions and Coronary Heart Disease (130)

 

9:30-10:00 am              Break

 

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 (134)

 

                                    Carme Borrell – Spain : Public health research in Barcelona (131)

 

Karen Messing, Ana Maria Seifert – Canada : Francophone ergonomic analysis as a method for combating gender inequality (132)

 

David Rose – England : The UK national statistics socio-economic classification and an illustration of its uses in research on health inequalities (133)

 

11:30 am -12:30 pm      POSTER SESSION

 

12:30-2:00 pm             Lunch

 

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 (136)

 

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 (123)

 

                        Ellen Rosskam (123)

 

                        Robert Karasek (123)

 

                        Tores Theorell (123)

 

                                                     

            T12   Interventions/Training

 

                        Moderator – Maritza Jauregui , United States  

 

                        Joel Bennett, Sue-Anne MacGregor: Web-based occupational/cardiovascular health education for business managers and executives (022)

 

                        Peter Schnall, Maritza Jauregui, Paul Landsbergis, Dean Baker: Future training needs to address the problem of work related psychosocial stressors and health (109)

 

                        Leslie Hammer , Robert Sinclair: Graduate training in occupational health psychology training programs (023)

 

Wayne Lewchuck , David Robertson, Donald Cole, Ted Haines, Mickey Kerr: Unions, labour contracts and health outcomes (045)

 

Birgit Aust, Antje Ducki: Comprehensive health promotion interventions at the workplace: Experiences with health circles in Germany (055)

 

             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 (030)

                                   

                        Heather Scott, Emile Tompa, et al: The health consequences of underemployment (079)

 

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 (092)

 

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 (026)

                     

           

 

            T14   High Risk Occupations: Professional Drivers

 

                        Moderator – June Fisher , United States

 

Olutayo Ajayi: Altered fibrinolytic response in Nigerian long distance drivers (008)

 

Finn Tuchsen, Hannerz H, Roepstorff C, Krause N: Stroke among make professional drivers in Denmark : 1994-2001 (066)

 

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 (049)

 

Orawan Kaewboonchoo, Sumlee Saleekul, Toshio Kawai: Blood lead level and blood pressure among bus drivers in Bangkok , Thailand (050)

 

4:30-5:00 pm               Break

 

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 (067)

 

Ghasem Yadegarfar, Roseanne McNamee: Shift work, death from ischaemic heart disease, social class and healthy shift worker effect (005)

 

LGPM van Amelsvoort, NWH Jansen, IJ Kant: Smoking among shift workers: More than a confounding factor (034)

 

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 (065)

 

           

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 (117)

 

David Diaz-Sanchez: Diesel, particles, and cardiovascular health: The toxicological perspective (118)

 

Ralph Delfino: Acute and long-term cardiovascular effects in workers and the general population (119)

 

Sean Collins: Psychosocial factors and cardiovascular changes (120)

 

            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) (091)

 

V. Bonneterre, Regis de Gaudemaris: Quantification of psychosocial and organization work factors (POWF): Special tools for health workers epidemiology (017)

 

Robert Karasek: Status of JCQ 2.0: Results of the JCQ workshop March 8, 2005 (096)

 

Maritza Jauregui : Measurement Issues involving social support (108)

 

            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 (068)

 

Hugh Davies, Weiwei Du, Paul Demers: Occupational exposure to noise and myocardial infarction morbidity (046)

 

Zhao Yiming, Wang Linzhi: Hearing susceptibility: A new risk factor for noise induced hypertension in a working population (121)

 

Siavash Banaee: The association between thermal conditions and cardiovascular diseases among Iran and steel industry workers (010)

 

                      

6:45 pm-8:00 pm          ICOH BUSINESS MEETING (optional)

 

 

Friday, 11 March

 

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 (002)

 

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 (063)

 

                        Hugo Westerlund, Jane Ferrie, Gabriel Oxenstierna, Tores Theorell : Workplace expansion and hospitalization for cardiovascular diseases (013)

 

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 (007)

           

            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 (085)

 

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 (014)

 

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 (072)

 

Haiou Yang , Maritza Jauregui , Peter Schnall and Dean Baker: Work and Cardiovascular Health among Vietnamese Americans: A Pilot Study (107)

 

Jinky Prado-Lu: Organizational factors that are associated with hypertension among women workers in industries that have accommodated information technology (112)

             

            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 (028)

 

Ase Marie Hansen, Garde AH, Persson R, Karlson B: Long working hours and salivary cortisol (073)

 

Kumi Hirokawa, Akizumi Tsutsumi , Kazunori Kayaba: Psychosocial factors and plasma fibrinogen in Japanese females and male workers (111)

 

Sean Collins, Robert Karasek: Within subject cardiac vagal response to work and rest day strain (103)

           

           

10:15-10:45 am            Break

 

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

 

            F21   Job Strain and CVD: An International Perspective

 

                       Moderator - Bo Netterstrom, Denmark

 

Jorge Roman Hernandez: The hidden side of subjectivity: Motivational component in demand-control model as a risk of high blood pressure (071)

 

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 (060)

 

Akizumi Tsutsumi, Kazunori Kayaba, Kumi Hirokawa, Shizukiyo Ishikawa: Job strain and risk of stroke: a preliminary analysis among Japanese workers (048)

 

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 (070)

 

Els Clays, Francoise Leynen, Dirk De Bacquer, Marcel Kornitzer, Guy De Backer: Associations between job strain and ambulatory blood pressure (006)

 

 

            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 (043)

 

Eve Laperriere, Karen Messing: Standing, walking, blood pressure and pain: Are they linked? (042)

 

Karen Messing, Stock S, Tissot F, Laperriere E, Couture V: Standing vs. walking: Can we distinguish them, and is the distinction important? (041)

 

Niklas Krause, Dasinger LK, Brand R, Kaplan GA , Salonen JT: Standing, walking and climbing stairs at work associated with 11 year progression of artherosclerosis (040)

 

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 (039)

 

            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 (093)

 

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 (021)

 

Haiou Yang , Peter Schnall, Maritza Jauregui : Occupation and job characteristics variations in self-reported hypertension in working population of California (106)

 

Alicja Bortkiewicz, K. Rydzynski: Cardiovascular diseases as an occupational health problem in Poland (031)

                        

Peter Smith, John Frank: Hours of work, measurement issues, trends and related social and health outcomes (024)

 

           

12:30-2:00 pm             Lunch

 

2:00-3:00 pm               KEYNOTE: Norito Kawakami , Japan

International Comparative Research on Work and Heart Disease (135)

 

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 (051)

 

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 (069)

 

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 (038)

 

Tania Araujo – Brazil : Reliability and validity of the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ): an empirical test in a developing country comparing formal and informal jobs (086)

 

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

 

5:00-6:00 pm               Break

 

6:00 pm                        Buses to Newport Harbor for DINNER CRUISE

 

6:30-10:30 pm             CONFERENCE DINNER CRUISE

 

11:00 pm                      Buses return to hotel

 

Poster Session

 

Abstract Number:	Name:	Title:
004	Jian Li	Effort-reward imbalance at work in association with depression in Chinese health care workers
097	Kaveh Asanati, Javad GH-Sanati	Cardiovascular Disorders in Workers Occupationally Exposed to N,N-dimethylformamide
090	Diva Lima, Tania Araujo, Amanda Rabelo, Millena Santos Silva	CORONARY HEART DISEASE (CHD) RISK FACTORS AMONG WOMEN EMPLOYEES IN A BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITY
089	P. Landsbergis (1), M. Adamu (1), P. Schnall (2)	Trends in U.S. job characteristics, 1977 - 2002
101	Jian Li, Do-Myung Paek, Ki-Do Eum, Mi-Sun Lee, Hye-Eun Lee, Sung-Il Cho	Job Strain and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Korean Industrial Workers
018	Dumitru Zrenghea, Laura Poanta, Dan Gaita	Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Risk Behaviors in Railway Workers
056	Leslie A. MacDonald, Sc.D. and Joseph J. Hurrell, Ph.D.	Organization of Work Measurement Tools for Research and Practice: Development of a Measures Catalog
099	Rammohan V. Maikala and Yagesh N. Bhambhani	ACUTE CARDIORESPIRATORY RESPONSES IN HEALTHY MEN AND WOMEN DURING EXPOSURE TO SEATED WHOLE-BODY VIBRATION
052	Jeffrey M. Conte, Stephanie Strauss, Patricia Duarte, & Nichole Best	An examination of validity and group differences in Type A subcomponent predictors of health outcomes
047	A. Bortkiewicz, E. Gadzicka, M. Zmyslony	Heart rate variability analysis in workers exposed to radio frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF)
044	Himanshu Kumar, Mekala Arunachalam, V. Ramamoorthy, V.N.Sharma, P. Thirumalaikolundusubramanian	Various risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among hypertensives of a public sector industry unit, India
037	Almira Kustubayeva, Janna Bideldinova, Genadi Kutcov	The estimation cardiovascular disease risk under in plant environment impact
027	Luz Amparo Pérez and Viviola Gómez Ortiz	Psychosocial Work Related Factors, Stress and Acute Myocardial Infarct in Colombian Working People
025	Estela Regina Ferraz Bianchi	Stress and coping among cardiovascular nurses in São Paulo-Brazil
019	George Bakhturidze, Gela Kobeshavidze	Tobacco Consumption, environmental smoking and heart diseases in Georgia
074	Chien-Tien Su, MD, MPH	Association Between Work Stress Status and Cardiovascular Risk in a Population of Taiwanese White-Collar Workers
077	Mostafa Ghaffari, Akbar Alipour	Sickness absence due to Cardiovascular diseases Among Industrial workers in IRAN
033	J. Siedlecka, A. Bortkiewicz, E. Gadzicka	Work-related stress and arterial hypertension in public transport drivers
080	Mostafa Ghaffari, Akbar Alipour	Prevalence of Ischemic Heart Diseases and Hypertension among Industrial workers in iran
009	DuanRung Chen	Health and Effort-reward Imbalance Model in a Sample of Taiwanese Medical Center Nurses
081	Beauregard, N., Lemyre, L., Corneil, W., Barrette, J., Legault, L.	A multilevel analysis of the occupational stress determinants among Canadian public service executives
076	Mostafa Ghaffari, Mohsen Naghavi	Pattern of Cardiovascular Death in IRAN
032	E. Gadzicka, A. Bortkiewicz, M. Zmyslony, W. Szymczak	Circadian variation of arterial blood pressure in operators of radio and tv stations
087	Tania Araujo, Diva Lima , Juarez Carmo Jr., Marcia Viana, Clébia Santos	JOB STRAIN AND ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AMONG WOMEN
122	Paul Landsbergis , Peter Schnall	Psychosocial job stressors and cardiovascular disease in the Framingham Offspring Study: A prospective analysis.
088	Julizar Dantas, Rene Mendes,Tania Araujo	ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PSYCHOSOCIAL JOB CHARACTERISTICS AND ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION IN AN OIL REFINERY IN BRAZIL
012	Jeffrey M. Conte, Stephanie Strauss, Patricia Duarte, & Nichole Best	An examination of validity and group differences in Type A subcomponent predictors of health outcomes