4 results match your criteria: "University of Zürich and Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences[Affiliation]"
Effect of a smoking ban on respiratory health in nonsmoking hospitality workers: a prospective cohort study.
J Occup Environ Med
October 2014
From the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Drs Rajkumar and Röösli), and University of Basel (Drs Rajkumar and Röösli); Clinic of Pulmonary Medicine and Respiratory Cell Research (Dr Stolz), University Hospital Basel; Department of Paediatric Pulmonology and Intensive Care Medicine (Dr Hammer), UKBB, Basel; Department of Respiratory Medicine (Dr Moeller), University Children's Hospital; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (Dr Bauer), University of Zürich and Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich; and Institute for Work and Health (Dr Huynh), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the effect of a smoking ban on lung function, fractional exhaled nitric oxide, and respiratory symptoms in nonsmoking hospitality workers.
Methods: Secondhand smoke exposure at the workplace, spirometry, and fractional exhaled nitric oxide were measured in 92 nonsmoking hospitality workers before as well as twice after a smoking ban.
Results: At baseline, secondhand smoke-exposed hospitality workers had lung function values significantly below the population average.
Evaluation of implementation, compliance and acceptance of partial smoking bans among hospitality workers before and after the Swiss Tobacco Control Act.
J Public Health (Oxf)
March 2015
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zürich and Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, Zurich 8001, Switzerland.
Background: The World Health Organization recommends uniform comprehensive smoking bans in public places. In Switzerland, regulations differ between various areas and are mostly incomplete for hospitality venues. As ambiguous regulations offer more leeway for implementation, we evaluated the Swiss regulations with respect to their effects on implementation, acceptance and compliance among hospitality workers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDesign principles for data- and change-oriented organisational analysis in workplace health promotion.
Health Promot Int
June 2012
Division Public and Organizational Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich and Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland.
This article focuses on organizational analysis in workplace health promotion (WHP) projects. It shows how this analysis can be designed such that it provides rational data relevant to the further context-specific and goal-oriented planning of WHP and equally supports individual and organizational change processes implied by WHP. Design principles for organizational analysis were developed on the basis of a narrative review of the guiding principles of WHP interventions and organizational change as well as the scientific principles of data collection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSocioeconomic status, working conditions and self-rated health in Switzerland: explaining the gradient in men and women.
Int J Public Health
June 2009
Division of Public and Organizational Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich and Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland.
Objectives: Epidemiological research has confirmed the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health, but only a few studies considered working conditions in this relationship. This study examined the contribution of physical and psychosocial working conditions in explaining the social gradient in self-rated health.
Methods: A representative sample of 10 101 employees, 5003 women and 5098 men, from the Swiss national health survey 2002 was used.