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4246.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
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| This session will present new data on workers choice to form unions and politics and policy movements for workers health; higher wages, safer jobs and improved health care access. The session will also investigate ways to reduce day laborers' injuries and illnesses, as well as the social, financial and emotional impacts of work related injury and illness. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Disseminate information on policies affecting public health 2. Develop approaches that incorporate worker and community collaboration in political and policy decisions to solve public health problems in the broadest sense 3. Describe workers’ centers organizations in an urban setting including membership, mission and structure and current health and safety initiatives 4. Recognize that occupational injuries and illnesses have significant impact on many injured workers beyond the physical effects of the injury/illness | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Jeffrey V. Johnson, PhD | |||
| 2:30 PM | Workers Free Choice to Form Unions –Myth or Reality? Peter Dooley, MS, CIH, CSP, Pamela Wilson | |||
| 2:45 PM | Politics and policy for workers' health: LAX Hilton Hotel workers and community allies mobilize for higher wages, safer jobs and improved health care access Pamela Vossenas, MPH, Marianne P. Brown, MPH, Linda Delp, PhD, Eric Frumin, MA, Joan Moriarty, MS | |||
| 3:00 PM |  | Reducing day laborers' injuries and illnesses: Understanding the role of workers' centers for improving work environments Leslie A. Nickels, Nadine Remington, MS, Joseph Zanoni, MILR | ||
| 3:15 PM | | Occupational Tragedies – Activism of Those Left Behind Peter Dooley, MS, CIH, CSP, Celeste Montfortin, MPH | ||
| 3:30 PM | | More than meets the eye: Aspects of social, financial, and emotional impacts of work related injury and illness Michael B. Lax, MD MPH, Rosemary Klein, C-ANP MS COHN | ||
| 3:45 PM | | Power, Respect and Violence in Human Service Work Jeffrey V. Johnson, PhD, Kathleen McPhaul, PhD, MPH, RN, Jane Lipscomb, PhD, RN, Matt London, MS, Dawn Foster, RN, MS | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Occupational Health and Safety | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
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