International Visiting Research Scholar Dr. Ute Bültmann will give a public talk at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC on May 18, 2016.

Abstract:
Good work is fundamental to life—as is good health. Work and health are interdependent. In view of changing demographics, work and labour markets, and social contexts, the key challenges to be addressed in work and health research and practice are 1) to minimize ill-health and its effects on work functioning, 2) to ensure good physical and psychosocial work environments, and 3) to accomplish these challenges across the widening socio-economic gradient and across the life course. Why a life course lens when looking at work and health? Detailed knowledge about the life transitions people make, e.g., from school to work, changing careers or the transition out of work towards retirement—and the impact of these transitions on trajectories of health, well-being and work functioning—is lacking. To deepen our understanding of the dynamic interplay between work and health, a life-course epidemiological perspective is needed. If we succeed in adopting a life course perspective and translating our findings into relevant policy and practice interventions, researchers, health care professionals, employers and policy makers can make a difference towards “healthy working lives.”

Speaker:
Dr. Ute Bültmann is Professor of Work and Health, in particular from a life-course epidemiological perspective, and Program Leader of Public Health Research at the Department of Health Sciences, Community and Occupational Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, at the University of Groningen, NL. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of work and health, and measurement of health-related functioning at work.

This event is free and open to the public. Register now.

When:
May 18th, 2016
4-5 pm, public talk
5-6 pm, reception

Location:
6331 Crescent Road
University Centre
Seminar Room (307)
University of BC