Past Meetings and Conferences

Meetings and Conferences where activities of the SC Unemployment and Health took place:

* 2004 *

Third International Conference on Unemployment and Health
September 23-25, 2004
University of Bremen, GERMANY

Chairs: Thomas Kieselbach
Institute for Psychology of Work, Unemployment and Health
University of Bremen, Germany

Simo Mannila, STAKES, Helsinki, Finland

Programme [PDF, 82KB]

* 2003 *

Conference on "Flexibility, quality of Working Life and Health"
November 20-21, 2003
Berlin, GERMANY

organised by the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EA-OHP)
Congress Web Site

Workshop on Human Resources Management in Occupational Health
November 6-8, 2003
Ghent, BELGIUM

This workshop will be organised by the ICOH Scientific Committee on Occupational Health Services Research and Evaluation in Occupational Health, in collaboration with the ICOH Scientific Committee on Education and Training in Occupational Health.
Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. M. Vanhoorne
Workshop Web Site

Scandinavian Expert Workshop "What are the mediating mechanisms between unemployment and ill health?"
September 22, 2003,
University of Umeå, SWEDEN

Conference convenor and organizer: Anne Hammarström,

Conference chairs: Anne Hammarström and Thomas Kieselbach

Workshop Programme [PDF, 44KB]

27th International Congress on Occupational Health
Iguassu Falls/Brazil, Febr 23-28, 2003

Congress Web Site

Keynote Topic: "THE CHALLENGE OF EQUITY IN SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK"

This topic is an increasingly important issue for occupational health, social justice and the protection of humankind, helping upgrade working conditions all over the world. The Congress offered a wide range of different events on various aspects of occupational health. There were several pre-congress courses and over 80 symposium sessions arranged by the 35 Scientific Committees.

The SC Unemployment and Health organised the following sessions

• Unemployment and Health I
• Unemployment and Health II
• Unemployment and Occupational Health in South America
• Supporting people in occupational transitions - challenges of the future labour markets
• Joint symposium together with the SC 'Work Organization and Psychosocial Factors' and SC 'Cardiology in Occupational Health'.
  Title: Psychosocial factors at work: What do we know and where should we go?

* 2002 *

25th International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP)
Singapore, July 7-12, 2002
Joint IAAP-ICOH Symposium "Work, Unemployment, Underemployment and Well- Being"

Korea-Japan-China Conference on Occupational Health
Pusan, Korea, May 14-16, 2002

* 2001 *

1st International Expert Conference "Occupational Transitions: Unemployment, Underemployment and Health"
Adelaide, Dec 10-12, 2001

The Conference aimed at bringing together experts from different countries and regions of the world, summing up the present and the future of unemployment research. The link between unemployment and health has been shown in various studies and can be seen as well established. Still, more detailed knowledge on subgroups is needed, e.g. men/women. For the future, we have to go beyond descriptions and call for action, e.g. concerning the humanizing the downsizing process and finding a new balance between individual and social responsibility for occupational transitions.

European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Conference
Valencia/Spain, September 12- 14, 2001
Joint EBEN-ICOH Symposium "Organisational Responsibility in Dismissals"

European Congress on Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) "Globalization - Threats and Challenges"
Prague/Czech Republic, May 16-19, 2001
Joint EAWOP-ICOH Symposium "Unemployment, Underemployment, and Health"

Argentinean-German Research Conference "Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion"
Rio Cuarto, Cordoba/Argentina, April 19-20, 2001

* 2000 *

26th World Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH)
Singapore, August 27 - September 1, 2000
Minutes of the Business Meeting 2000 [PDF, 19 KB]

* 1998 *

1st meeting of the Working Group Unemployment and Health
Paris, September 25-26, 1998
This was the first worldwide conference on the topic of interventions to limit the health impact of unemployment in 15 countries. It was arranged in co- operation with "Association Pour la Santé du Non-Travail" (ASNOTRA).