4210.0 Occupational Epidemiology

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
This session will increase the participants knowledge and understanding of how employment, uncertain economic conditions and the work enviornment (i.e, perceived discrimination) affects an individuals health and their ability to cope and take the necessary precautions to prevention negative health outcomes.
Session Objectives: Describe the interaction between the effects of employment stability during 3 years in combination with economic status on depression Discuss mechanisms by which uncertain economic environments can contribute to risky health behaviors. Describe the causes of the healthy worker survivor effect
Moderator:
Michele Bonhomme, PhD

12:30pm
Interaction between the Effects of Employment Instability in Combination with Economic Status on Depression
Eunhae Chung, MSW, Heejin Kimm, MD PhD and In Han Song, PhD
12:45pm
How do workers' modifiable health risks respond to the health of their industry?
Brian Gifford, PhD
     
  
1:00pm
Impact of perceived racial discrimination on employee health: Results from the Georgia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 2010
Antionette Lavender, MPH and A. Rana Bayakly, MPH
     
1:15pm
Causal Methods to Control for the Healthy Worker Survivor Effect
Jonathan Chevrier, PhD, Sally Picciotto, PhD and Ellen A. Eisen, ScD
1:30pm
Occupational health experiences of Hispanic day laborers
Claudia Diaz Fuentes, MPhil, MA, Narda Hernandez-Dias, BA, Leonardo Martinez, MPH, Meshawn Tarver, MPH and Marielena Lara, MD, MPH
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Epidemiology
Endorsed by: Occupational Health and Safety, APHA-Student Assembly, Socialist Caucus, Community Health Planning and Policy Development

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

See more of: Epidemiology
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