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On the Connections Between Work and Health




Please note that articles and written products that have resulted from grants of the Work and Health Initiative are indicated below with asterisks.

1 U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Available at www.calmis.cahwnet.gov.

*2 Yelin, E. and Trupin, L. Analysis of data from the 1999 California Work and Health Survey. Available at medicine.ucsf.edu/programs/cwhs.

*3 Proceedings from the Future of Work and Health Conference, April 1998. Convened by The California Wellness Foundation and Institute of Regional and Urban Studies. Available at www.irus.org.

4 Durkheim, Emile. 1897. Suicide. In Simpson (ed.). New York: The Free Press; 1951.

5 Jin, R. L., Shah, C. P., Svoboda, T. J. 1997. The impact of unemployment on health: A review of the evidence. Journal of Public Health Policy 18:275301.

6 Iversen, L., Andersen, O., Andersen, P. K., Christoffersen, K., Keiding, N. 1987. Unemployment and mortality in Denmark, 1970-80. British Medical Journal 295:879-84.

7 Martikainen, P. T. 1990. Unemployment and mortality among Finnish men, 1981-85. British Medical Journal 301:407-411.

8 Moser, K. A., Goldblatt, P. O., Fox, A. J., Jones, D. R. 1987. Unemployment and mortality: comparison of the 1971 and 1981 longitudinal study census samples. British Medical Journal 294:86-90.

9 Grayson, J. P. 1985. The closure of a factory and its impact on health. International Journal of Health Services 15:69-93.

10 Iversen, L., Andersen, O., Andersen, P. K., Christoffersen, K., Keiding, N. 1987. Unemployment and mortality in Denmark, 1970-80. British Medical Journal 295:879-884.

11 Westin, S., Norum, D., Schlesselman, J. J. 1988. Medical consequences of a factory closure: illness and disability in a four-year follow-up study. International Journal of Epidemiology 17:153-161.

12 Zeitlin, L. 1995. Organizational downsizing and stress-related illness. International Journal of Stress Management 2:207-219.

13 Ferrie, J. E., Shipley, M. J., Marmot, M. G., Stansfeld, S. A., Smith, G. D. 1998. An uncertain future: The health effects of threats to employment security in white-collar men and women. American Journal of Public Health 88:1030-1036.

14 Mattiasson, I., Lindgarde, F., Nilsson, J. A., Theorell, T. 1990. Threat of unemployment and cardiovascular risk factors: longitudinal study of quality of sleep and serum cholesterol concentrations in men threatened with redundancy. British Medical Journal 301:461-466.

15 Catalano, R. and Dooley, D. 1983. Health effects of economic instability: A test of economic stress hypothesis. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 24:46-60.

*16 Yelin E. and Trupin, L. Analysis of data from the 1999 California Work and Health Survey. Available at medicine.ucsf.edu/programs/cwhs.

*17 Dooley, D., Fielding, J. and Levi. 1996. Health and unemployment. Annual Review of Public Health 17:449-465.

*18 Dooley, D. and Prause, J. 1998. Underemployment and alcohol abuse in the national longitudinal survey of youth. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 59:69-680.

19 Sauter, S., Murphy, L., Hurrell, J. 1990. Prevention of work-related psychological disorders. American Psychologist 45:1146-1158.

20 Karasek, R., Baker, D., Marxer, F., Ahlbom, A., Theorell, T. 1981. Job decision latitude, job demands, and cardiovascular disease: A prospective study of Swedish men. American Journal of Public Health 71:694-705.

21 Lynch, J., Krause, N., Kaplan, G. A., Salonen, R., Salonen, J. T. 1997. Workplace demands, economic reward, and progression of carotid atherosclerosis. Circulation 96:302-307.

22 Theorell, T., Tsutsumi, A., Hallquist, J., Reuterwall, C., Hogstedt, C., et al. 1998. Decision latitude, job strain, and myocardial infarction: A study of working men in Stockholm. American Journal of Public Health 88:382-388.

23 Astrand, N. E., Hanson, B. S., Isacson, S. O. 1989. Job demands, job decision latitude, job support and social network factors as predictors of mortality in a Swedish pulp and paper factory. British Journal of Industrial Medicine 46:334-340.

24 Schnall, P. L., Landsbergis, P. A., Baker, D. 1994. Job strain and cardiovascular disease. Annual Review of Public Health 15:381-411.

25 Karasek, R. 1979. Job demands, job decision latitude, and mental strain: Implications for job redesign. Administration Sciences Quarterly 24:285-308.

26 Schechter, J., Green, L. W., Olsen, L., Kruse, K., Cargo, M. 1997. Application of Karasek’s demand/control model to a Canadian occupational setting including shift workers. American Journal of Health Promotion 11:394-399.

27 Amick, B.C., Kawachi, I., Coakley, E.H., Lerner, D., Levine, S., Coldistz, G.A. 1998. Relationship of job strain and iso-strain to health status in a cohort of women in the United States. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 24:54-61.

28 Fenwick, R. and Tausig, M. 1994. The macroeconomic context of job stress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 35: 266-282.

29 Marmot. M.G. 1994. Social differentials in health within and between populations. Daedelus: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 123:197-216.

*30 Schauffler, H. and Brown, E. R. 1999. The State of Health Insurance in California. Berkeley: Regents of the University of California, January 2000. All statistics in this paragraph are taken from this source. Available at chpps.berkeley.edu/hipp.

31 Fielding, J. 1991. Health promotion at the worksite. Work, Health, and Productivity. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 256-285.

*32 Donaldson, S., Gooler, L. and Weiss, R. 1998. Promoting heath and well-being through work: Science and practice. In Arriaga and Oskamp (eds.). Addressing Community Problems: Psychological Research and Intervention. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 160-194.

33 Wilson, M.G., Holman, P.B., Hammock, A. 1996. A comprehensive review of the effects of worksite health promotion on health-related outcomes. American Journal of Health Promotion 10:429-435.

34 Glanz, K., Sorensen, G., Farmer, A. 1996. The health impact of worksite nutrition and cholesterol intervention programs. American Journal of Health Promotion 10:453-470.

35 Heaney, C. A., Goetzel, R.Z. 1997. A review of health-related outcomes of multi-component worksite health promotion programs. American Journal of Health Promotion 11:290-307.

*36 Stokols, D., McMahan, S. and Phillips, K. (in press). Workplace health promotion in small businesses. In O’Donnell (ed.). Health Promotion in the Workplace (3rd ed.). Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, Inc.

37 California Department of Industrial Relations. Available at www.dir.ca.gov.

38 Personal communications. Jim Cone, M.D., MPH, Director of Occupational Health and Safety, California Department of Health Services, and Dr. Paul Leigh, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine.

39 Leigh, J.P., Markowitz, S. B., Fahs, M. 1997. Occupational injury and illness in the United States. Archives of Internal Medicine 157:1557-1566.

40 Leigh, J. P., Markowitz, S. B., Fahs, M. 1997, ibid.

*41 Cited in Greiner, B. Psychosocial work factors and health: Building bridges between disciplines. Unpublished paper prepared for The California Wellness Foundation, September 1996.

*42 Yelin E. and Trupin, L. 1999, ibid.

*43 Yelin E. and Trupin, L. 1998, ibid.

44 Barnett, R.. 1998 Toward a review and reconceptualization of the work/family literature. Genetic, Social and General Psychology Monographs. 124:125-182.

*45 Yelin, E. and Trupin, L. 1999, ibid.

46 Kawachi, I., Colditz, G.A., Stampfer, M.J., Willett, W. C., Manson, J.E., et al. 1995. Prospective study of shift work and risk of coronary heart disease in women. Circulation 92:3178-3182.

47 Tenkanen, L., Sjoblom, T., Kalimo, R., Alikoski, T., Harma, M. 1997. Shift work, occupation and coronary heart disease over 6 years of followup in the Helsinki Heart Study. Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment and Health 23:257-265.

48 Budnick, L. D., Lerman, S. E., Baker, T. L., Jones, H., Czeisler, C. A. 1994. Sleep and alertness in a 12-hour rotating shift work environment. Journal of Occupational Medicine 36:1295-1300.

49 Rosa, R.R., Bonnet, M.H., Cole, L.L. 1998. Work schedule and task factors in upper-extremity fatigue. Human Factors 40:150-158.

50 Michalopoulos, C. and Schwartz, C. What works best for whom: Impacts of 20 welfare-to-work programs by subgroup. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington D.C., forthcoming 2000.

51 Wilkinson, R.G. 1996. Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality. London: Routledge, 255 pp.

52 Lynch, J.W., Kaplan, G.A., Pamuk E., Cohen, R.D., Heck, K., Balfour, J.L., Yen, I.H. 1998. Income inequality and mortality in metropolitan areas of the United States. American Journal of Public Health 88:1074-1080.

53 California Budget Project. Unequal gains: The state of working California. Available at www.cbp.org/reports/9809uneq.html.

54 Marmot, M. and Wilkinson, R.G. (eds). 1999. Social Determinants of Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 291 pp.

55 Amick, B. and Lavis, J. 1999. Labor markets and health: A framework and set of applications. In A. Tarlov (ed.). Society and Population Health. New York: The New Press, forthcoming 2000.

56 Barnett, R., 1998, ibid.

57 Moller, R.M. 2000. Profile of California computer and internet users. California State Library. California Research Bureau. Sacramento, CA.

*58 The principal investigators of this program are Helen Schauffler, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, and E. Richard Brown, UCLA. Information on their various products can be accessed through the website of The California Wellness Foundation (www.tcwf.org) or directly at chpps.berkeley.edu/hipp.

*59 The principal investigator for this program is Lucien Wulsin, J.D. Information on this program can be accessed through the website of The California Wellness Foundation (www.tcwf.org) or directly at www.work-and-health.org/itup.

*60 Yelin, E. and Trupin, L. 1999, ibid.

*61 Yelin, E. and Trupin, L. 1999, ibid.

*62 Morales, L. Proceedings from the Future of Work and Health Conference, April 1998. Convened by The California Wellness Foundation and Institute of Regional and Urban Studies. Available at www.irus.org.

*63 Operario, D. and Adler, N.E. The occupational-health gradient: How your job can get under your skin. Unpublished manuscript available from the authors at the University of California, San Francisco, Health Psychology Program.

*64 Goto, S., Kim, C.Y., James, I., Abe-Kim, J.S., Park, C.H. Asian American experiences with racial and ethnic discrimination at work: Prevalence, predictors, and health outcomes. Unpublished manuscript available from the authors at Pomona College.

*65 Yelin, E. and Trupin, L. 1999, ibid.

*66 Personal communication. Judi Gentry, Program Quality and Operations Manager, and Vonna L. Gissler, Employment and Training Program Coordinator at the NOVA Private Industry Council in Silicon Valley.

*67 Proceedings from the "Demographic Diversity, Work and Health in California" Conference, May 1999. Convened by The California Wellness Foundation and Institute of Regional and Urban Studies. Available at www.irus.org.

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