This page includes presentations by NIOH researchers, at international and national congresses, seminars and workshops. The presentations are ordered chronologically with the latest first. The oldest presentations on the lists are from 2001.

 

Presentations from individual research groups and projects may also be found in Current Research.

 

Second joint European Public Health Conference, Lodz, Polen, November 25-28 2009

• Effort-reward imbalance and risk of sleep disturbances in the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study. Reiner Rugulies, NFA
• Person-related work and incident use of antidepressants. Ida E. H. Madsen, NFA
• Implementation issues in interdisciplinary and coordinated return-to-work interventions in Denmark. Louise Meinertz, NFA
• Healing of a vulnerable self: Return-to-work for women with mental health problems. Maj Britt Dahl Nielsen, NFA

Job strain, work-related rumination, self-efficacy and sleep among knowledge workers. Marie H. T. Martin, NFA, The 8th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health. Work, stress, and health 2009: Global concerns and approaches, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 5-8 2009

 

Organizatiional barriers for multidisciplinary return-to-work programs in Denmark. Louise Meintertz, NFS, The 6th Danish Stress Conference on Stress Research, Copenhagen, November 5th 2009

 

The distribution of effor-reward imbalance in a representative sample of the Danish workforce. Reiner Rugulies, NFA, The Fifth International Conference on Work Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases, Krakow, Poland, September 27-30 2009

 

When health & safety interventions meet real-life challenges. Peter Hasle, NRCWE, Association of Canadian Ergonomists XLth Annual Conference "Ergonomics - Think it. Live it.", September 15 2009

 

Sick leave and return to work: flexibility in Denmark. Palle Ørbæk, NRCWE, NAM2009, Helsinki, September 1 2009

 

Influence and control in work. Karen Albertsen, NRCWE, NES2009, Helsinore, June 21-23 2009

 

Psychosocial work environment, performance-based self-esteem and stress symptoms among Danish knowledge workers. Karen Albertsen, NRCWE, The 14th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May 13-16 2009

 

Why do you not just do as you are told to? Peter Hasle, NRCWE, DI Offshore Day, Esbjerg Performing Arts Centre, March 17 2009

 

 

 

2008

Selected lectures from the course "Psychosocial Job Stress, Heart Rate Variability, and Chronic Disease", Copenhagen University, Psychology, fall 2008, by Åse Marie Hansen, Jesper Kristiansen, Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen and Helene Garde, NRCWE.

• Job stress bio-monitoring methods: heart rate variability (HRV) and the autonomic response, Jesper Kristiansen, NRCWE, October 17 2008.
• Work, stress, and bodily reactions, Åse Marie Hansen, NRCWE, October 24 2008.
• When are the physiological reactions unhealthy?, Helene Garde, NRCWE, October 31 2008.
• Ethics in biomedical research, Helene Garde, NRCWE, October 31 2008.
• New working hours in the eldercare sector, Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen, NRCWE, November 21 2008.
• Large scale studies of work stress and disease – using stress biomarkers, Åse Marie Hansen, NRCWE, November 21 2008.

Stress as offence to self -Illegitimate stressors or legitimate management, Ole H. Sørensen, NRCWE, 5th Stress Convention, The National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, November 3rd 2008

 

Third International Conference on Psychosocial Factors at Work (ICOH-WOPS), Quebec, Canada, September 1-4, 2008

• Challenges from global competition, employer strategies, and psychosocial factors - Danish experience. Peter Hasle & Ole H. Sørensen, NRCWE [PDF version]
• Evaluation of return-to-work interventions for people with common mental disorders, Malene Amby, Maj Britt Dahl Nielsen, Ute Bültmann & Reiner Rugulies, NRCWE [PDF Version]
• Common mental disorders, return-to-work and sickness absence (CORSA), Maj Britt Dahl Nielsen, NRCWE and others. [PDF version]
• Work-related determinants of sickness absence among Danish human service workers, Reiner Rugulies, NRCWE [PDF version]
• Effort-reward imbalance and risk of musculoskeletal disability among transit operators, Reiner Rugulies, NRCWE & Niklas Krause University of California, San Francisco [PDF version]
• Working time arrangements, work-life balance and well-being - a review, Karen Albertsen, NFA [PDF version]
• Work-family among knowledge workers - can work-place culture reduce the conflicts? Karen Albertsen, NFA [PDF version]

10th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine (ICBM), Tokyo, Japan, August 27-30t, 2008

• Job insecurity, labour market chances and decline in self-rated health in Denmark, Reiner Rugulies, Birgit Aust, Hermann Burr & Ute Bültmann [PDF version]
• Job strain, immigration status and smoking in female hotel room cleaners in Las Vegas, Reiner Rugulies, Teresa Scherzer & Niklas Krause [PDF version]
• Do adverse psychosocial working conditions cause the onset of depression? Reiner Rugulies, Bo Netterstrøm, JianLi Wang, Akizumi Tsutsumi & Jac J.L. van der Klink [PDF version]
• The relationship between work related stressors and the development of mental disorders other than PTSD, Bo Netterstrøm, Nicole Conrad, Per Bech, Per Fink, Reiner Rugulies & Stephen Stansfeld [PDF version]
• The impact of work stress on the risk of developing major depression, JianLi Wang, [PDF version]
• Psychosocial job characteristics and depression and the related outcomes in Japanese workers, Akizumi Tsutsumi [PDF version]
• Work and mental health: Evidence from the The Netherlands, Jac J.L. van der Klink [PDF version]

 

Seminar on immigrants in the cleaning trade, The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, April 2 2008

• Presentation of the SPIR project on immigrants in the cleaning trade, Mari-Ann Flyvholm, senior researcher, NRCWE [PDF version]
• Assessing and Controlling Occupational Health Risks to Immigrants in Somerville, Massachusetts, David M. Gute, associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University Boston, USA [PDF version]
• Conceptualizing and Launching Vida Verde: A Co-operative. Heloisa Galvão, president, Brazilian Women's Group, Boston, USA [link to video] [link to homepage]
• A Norwegian project on the cleaning trade – experiences and challenges, Migle Gamperiene, researcher, Work Research Institute, Oslo, Norway [PDF version]
• Results from field studies with participant observation among immigrant cleaners, Niels Berthelsen, research associate and Henriette Bjerg Mahrt, research assistant, NRCWE [PDF version]
  

 

7th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health (APA/NIOSH), Washington, DC, USA, March 6-8th 2008

• Return to work among employees on long-term sickness absence due to common mental disorders, Maj Britt Dahl Nielsen, Malene Amby, Ute Bültmann & Reiner Rugulies, NRCWE [PDF version]
• Wishes, expectations and plans for retirement among female healthcare employees, Malene Amby, Maj Britt Dahl Nielsen & Karen Albertsen, NRCWE [PDF version]
  

2007

Summit on Occupational Safety Culture and Climate, The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, October 30 - 31 2007

• Safety climate/culture and intervention - experiences from the FAIS project. Bryan Cleal, The National Research Centre for the Working Environment [PDF version]
• Management values, leadership, and safety climate. Dov Zohar, Israel Institute of Technology [PDF version]
• Safety, management, and culture. Frank Guldenmund, Delft University of Technology [PDF version]
• Safety culture in an institutional perspective. Johnny Dyreborg, The National Research Centre for the Working Environment [PDF version]
• Safety climate: Where are we now? Rhona Flin, Aberdeen University [PDF version]
• Multiple safety climates. Mark Griffin, University of Sheffield [PDF version]

Preventing MSD - The case of repetitive strain injuries in Denmark. Peter Hasle, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Les Débates d'EUROGIP, Paris October 22 2007 [PDF version]

 

Organizational social capital and the relations with quality of work and health - a new issue for research. Peter Hasle, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, International Congress on Social Capital and Networks of Trust, University of Jyväskylä, Finland October 18 -20 2007 [PDF version]

 

Improving the quality of job design. David Holman, Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield [PDF version]

2006

9th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Bangkok, November 29th - December 2nd, 2006

• Family work conflict in an industrialized welfare state. The role of psychosocial work environment and family type.  Tage S. Kristensen & Jan H. Pejtersen, NIOH, Denmark [PDF version]
• Gender differences in psychosocial work environment. A national Danish study. Tage S. Kristensen, Jan H. Pejtersen, Ebbe Villadsen, NIOH, Denmark [PDF version]

Work, Stress, and Health 2006: Making a Difference in the Workplace, Miami Florida, 2-4. marts 2006

• Psychosocial Work Environment and Incidence of Severe Depressive Symptoms, Reiner Rugulies, Ute Bültmann, Birgit Aust, Hermann Burr, , National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark [PDF version]
• Depressive symptoms as risk factor for work disability, Ute Bültmann, Karl B. Christensen, Hermann Burr, Thomas Lund, Reiner Rugulies, National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark  [PDF version]

 

2005

Work and stress. New trends in a globalized economy. Tage S. Kristensen, NIOH, Denmark. 2nd Stress Research Conference, November 7th 2005, SIF [PDF version]

 

Working with people. Threats and challenges. Tage S. Kristensen, NIOH, Denmark. NIVA course on “Work environment in the health care sector” October 9 2005, Lyngby, Denmark  [PDF version]

 

The Second ICOH International Conference on Psychosocial Factors at Work, Okayama, Japan, August 23-26, 2005

• Workplace Level of Psychosocial Factos as Prospective Predictors of Registered Sickness Absence. Karl B. Christensen, NIOH, Denmark [PDF version]
• Psychosocial Predictors of short and long Spells of registered Sickness Absence during af Two-year Follow-up. Martin L. Nielsen, NIOH, Denmark [PDF version]
• An example of an Instrument for International Comparisons: The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire. Tage S. Kristensen, NIOH, Denmark. [PDF version]
• Psychosocial Work Environment in Spain and Denmark: A cross-cultural comparison. Tage S. Kristensen, NIOH, Denmark. [PDF version]
• Values and health. How are important workplace values related to the health of the employees? Tage S. Kristensen, NIOH, Denmark. [PDF version]
• Summary of the Conference at the Closing Session. Tage S. Kristensen, NIOH, Denmark. [PDF version]

  

Presentations from the Sound Seminar April 15th 2005, Symbion, Copenhagen:

• Introduction. Palle Ørbæk, Arbejdsmiljøinstituttet [PDF version]
• Low back pain and sick leave: How and how much can this be prevented? Johan Hviid Andersen, Dept. of Occupational Medicine, Herning Hospital [PDF version]
• Low back pain and sick leave: How and how much can this be prevented? Hege R. Eriksen, University of Bergen [PDF version]
• Low back pain and sick leave: How and how much can this be prevented? Hilkka Riihimäki. Will not be published since the slides are based on unpublished data.
• Occupational low back disorder. Causation and Control. William S. Marras, The Ohio State University, USA [PDF version]
• About Sound. Jørgen Winkel, National Institute of Working Life, Sweden [PDF version]
• Deltagerliste [Wordfil]

 

The Changing Nature of Work – and its Implications for Cardiovascular Disease. Tage S. Kristensen, National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark. Presented at the Fourth International Conference on Work Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases, arranged by the Scientific Committee on Cardiology in Occupational Health, ICOH, Southern California, March 9-11, 2005. [PPT version]

 

AMI's tredækker-koncept. Tage Søndergård Kristensen, Arbejdsmiljøinstituttet. Arbejdsmiljøkonferencen, 2005. Hotel Nyborg Strand, 2. marts 2005 [PPT version]

2004

Hjertekarsygdomme  - risikofaktorer i arbejdsmiljøet. Tage Søndergård Kristensen. Arbejdsmiljøinstituttet. ISMF’s Årsmøde. Eigtveds Pakhus, 12. november 2004. [ PDF version | PowerPoint version]

 

The Soft Guidelines of NIOH, Copenhagen. How to go from survey to action. Tage S. Kristensen, NIOH, Copenhagen, Denmark. The Eighth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine. Mainz, August 2004. [PDF version | PowerPoint version]

 

The Copenhagen Stress Model. The ”Six Golden Nuggets”. Tage S. Kristensen NIOH, Copenhagen, Denmark. The Eighth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Mainz, August 2004 [PDF version | PowerPoint version]

 

Status og planer for AMI's spørgeskemaer om psykisk arbejdsmiljø - tredækkeren. T. S. Kristensen, København, maj 2004. [PDF version | PowerPoint version]

 

Wood Dust Symposium 15th April 2004

Welcome

Kai Savolainen (Institute of Occupational Health in Finland, FIOH) Slides [PDF version]

 

General introduction

Paul A. Demers. (School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene,University of British Columbia, Vancouver) Slides [PDF version] Abstract [PDF version]

 

Biology and epidemiology of wood dust related sinonasal cancer

Pathology and etiology of sinonasal cancer. Michael Dictor (Dept. pathology, Lund University Hospital) Slides [PDF version]

Epidemiology of sinonasal cancer in Nordic countries. Eero Pukkala (Finnish Cancer registry) Abstract [PDF version]

Epidemiology in the Danish Wood Risk study. Johnni Hansen (Danish Cancer Society) Slides [PDF version]

P53 mutations in sinonasal cancers. Reetta Holmila (FIOH) Abstract [PDF version]

K-RAS and H-RAS mutations in sinonasal cancers. Jette Bornholdt (Danish NIOH) Slides [PDF version]

 

Epidemiology and biology of wood dust-related non-malignant respiratory diseases

What do we know about wood dust exposure and non-malignant respiratory diseases - an epidemiological approach. Vivi Schlünssen (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Skive Hospital, Denmark) Slides [PDF version] Abstract [PDF version]

Oxidative properties of particles and biological effects. Paul Borm (Heinrich Heine University, IUF, Düsseldorf, Gemany, and Hogeschool Zuyd in Heerlen, The Netherlands) Slides [PDF version]

ROS-mediated cytokine expression in wood dust-exposed rat alveolar macrophages. Fritz Krombach (University of Munich, Germany) Abstract [PDF version]

Wood dust-induced inflammatory response in mouse macrophages. Juha Määttä (FIOH, Helsinki, Finland) Slides [PDF version] Abstract [PDF version]

Wood dust-induced pulmonary inflammation in mice. Harri Alenius (FIOH, Helsinki, Finland) Slides [PDF version]

 

Exposures and exposure assessment for wood dust

Company survey on wwod dust in four EU countries. Raymond Vincent (INRS) Slides [PDF version]

Exposure measurements on wood dust. Tuula Liukkonen (FIOH, Lappeenranta) Slides [PDF version] Abstract [PDF version]

Occupational exposure to wood dust in EU countries (WOODEX).Timo Kauppinen (FIOH, Helsinki) Slides [PDF version] preliminary results Abstract [PDF version]

 

Legislation, prevention and risk assessment of wood dust exposures

The SCOEL document for TLV for wood dust in the EU. Kristi Husgafvel-Pursiainen (FIOH) Abstract [PDF version]

Danish prevention and legislation strategy. Bent Horn Andersen (National Working Environment Authority, Denmark) Slides [PDF version]

Wood dust regulation and prevention in a trade union perspective. Ulrik Spannow, (Nordic Federation of Building and Wood Workers) Slides [PDF version] Abstract [PDF version]

Wood dust - more than an occupational health problem. Kim Bøhmert, (Danish Woodwork Industy) Slides [PDF version]

 

See also http://www.ttl.fi/en/sectors_of_activity/woodrisk/pages/default.aspx

2003

Dialogdag - Fremtidens kontorarbejde. Hanne Christensen m.fl. København 19. november.
Indledning [PowerPoint version]
Fremtidens kontorindeklima [PowerPoint version]
Læring i et åbent netværk [PowerPoint version]
Det grænseløse arbejde [PowerPoint version]

 

Formidlingsmøde om lange arbejdsdage - arbejde ved store anlægsbyggerier. Anne Helene Garde m.fl. København 26. september og Århus 3. oktober 2003.
Søvn og træthed [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version],
Litteraturstudie [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version],
Fysiologiske effekter [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version],
Ulykker, sygelighed og dødelighed [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version].

 

The psychosocial work environment and the associations with work-family conflict. Tage S. Kristensen, Lars Smith-Hansen & Nicole Jansen. Presented at Conference on Work, Family, Health, and Well-being, Washington D.C., June 2003.[PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

European Examples of Good Practice in prevention of work related stress. Karen Albertsen. Presented at Work, stress and Health: New challenges in a changing workplace, Toronto, March 2003. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

Factors in work environment associated with absence from work. Merete Labriola. Presented at 27th International Congress on Occupational Health Iguassu Falls, Brazil. February 2003. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

Interventions to improve psychosocial work environment. Research challenges and solutions & Psychosocial work environment interventions reduced absence. Martin L. Nielsen. Presented at 27th International Congress on Occupational Health Iguassu Falls, Brazil. February 2003. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

Burnout, job satisfaction and motivation: Results from the Danish PUMA Study of 1,914 human service workers. Tage S. Kristensen, Marianne Borritz & Ebbe Villadsen. Presented at 27th International Congress on Occupational Health Iguassu Falls, Brazil. February 2003. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

The Health Promotion Approach at the Workplace: Uses and Abuses. Tage S. Kristensen. Presented at 27th International Congress on Occupational Health Iguassu Falls, Brazil. February 2003. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

A national survey of the psychosocial work environment in Denmark: A comparison of industries. T. S. Kristensen, V. Borg, H. Burr. Presented at 27th International Congress on Occupational Health Iguassu Falls, Brazil. February 2003. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

What are the proportions of work-related diseases? A national study based on hospitalization registries. Tage S. Kristensen, Otto M. Poulsen, Harald Hannerz, Finn Tüchsen & Vilhelm Borg. Presented at 27th International Congress on Occupational Health Iguassu Falls, Brazil. February 2003. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

ICOH-Symposium on Psychosocial Factors. Tage S. Kristensen. Presented at 27th International Congress on Occupational Health Iguassu Falls, Brazil. February 2003. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

From research to practice: The ”Soft Guidelines” of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ). Tage S. Kristensen. Presented at 27th International Congress on Occupational Health Iguassu Falls, Brazil. February 2003. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

2002

Improvements of the psychosocial work environment on a scientific basis. Tage S. Kristensen.  The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ). Presented at the 16th Congress on Epidemiology in Occupational Health, Barcelona, 11-14 September, 2002. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

Measurement of cortisol in saliva by nine laboratories.  Anne Helene Garde, Åse Marie Hansen, and Thomas Block Nikolajsen. Department of Physiology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark. Poster presented at 4th World Congress on Stress. Edinburgh, UK. September 12-15, 2002.  [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

A systematic review of the impact of work environment factors on changes in smoking.  Karen Albertsen, Vilhelm Borg & Brian Oldenburg. National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark and Queensland University of Technology, Australia. August 2002.  [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

Work Environment and Social Status as predictors of Smoking Cessation - A Five Year Follow-up Study. Karen Albertsen, Vilhelm Borg, Harald Hannerz & Herman Burr. National Institute of Occupational health Denmark. National Institute of Occupational Health Copenhagen, Denmark. August 2002.  [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

Absence from work, A question of attitude? Results from the IPAW* study (* Intervention Project on Absence and Well-being). T. S. Kristensen, L. Smith-Hansen & M. L. Nielsen. National Institute of Occupational Health Copenhagen, Denmark. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

How to measure quantitative psychosocial demands at work. An analysis based on the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ). Third International Conference on Work Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases March 20-22, 2002. Düsseldorf. Tage S. Kristensen Karl B. Christensen Vilhelm Borg. National Institute of Occupational Health Copenhagen, Denmark. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

Psychosocial demands at work. How many dimensions should we use ? An analysis based on the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ). Tage S. Kristensen Harald Hannerz Karl B. Christensen Vilhelm Borg. National Institute of Occupational Health Copenhagen, Denmark. [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

Ætiologiske fraktioner - et centralt begreb for arbejdsmiljøforskningen. Præsentation på Arbejdsmiljøinstituttet, 22. januar 2002, ved Tage S. Kristensen, Arbejdspsykologisk-sociologisk afdeling, Arbejdsmiljøinstituttet.  [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

2001 

A new tool for assessing psychosocial factors at work: Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ). Presentation at European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, Barcelona Congress, October 24-27, 2001, by Tage S. Kristensen, National Institute of Occupational Health Copenhagen, Denmark.  [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]

 

Intervention studies - Usefulness and good practice. Presentation at EPICOH 2001, Copenhagen, August 2001 by Tage S. Kristensen, National Institute of Occupational Health Copenhagen, Denmark.  [PowerPoint version | PDF version | HTML version]