David Gimeno
Biographic Data
| ID | 1816219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Gimeno |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Gimeno |
| SIGNATURE | GIMENO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2502-0465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Prevalence and Geographic Distribution of Self-Reported Chronic Kidney Disease and Potential Risk Factors in Central America
Our findings supplement prior CKDu findings regarding a high prevalence of work-related CKD among 30- to 49-year-old mestizo males in the primary and secondary sectors, in hot temperature areas, in the central and western region, and overlapping with persons reporting two or more CKDu risk factors. Moreover, several geographic areas with CKDu risk factor clusters had no reported work-related CKD. These areas represent new industries and sectors t…
Sociopolitical values and social institutions
Work contributes to health and health inequity in complex ways. The traditional exposure-disease framework used in occupational health research is not equipped to address societal contexts in which work is embedded. The political economy approach to public health directly examines macro-level societal contexts, but the attention to work in this literature is mostly on unemployment. As a result, we have limited understanding of work as a social de…
Gender Differences in the Association between Positive Drinking Attitudes and Alcohol-Related Problems. The Wirus Study
Background: Alcohol consumption is deeply integrated in people's social- and work lives and, thus, constitutes a serious public health challenge. Attitudes toward drinking stand out as important predictors of drinking, but have to date been sparsely studied in employee populations. This study explores the association of employees' attitudes toward drinking with their alcohol-related problems, and whether this association is moderated by gender an…
Cuestionario básico y criterios metodológicos para las Encuestas sobre Condiciones de Trabajo, Empleo y Salud en América Latina y el Caribe
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar un cuestionario básico y criterios metodológicos mínimos, para ser considerados en futuras Encuestas sobre Condiciones de Trabajo, Empleo y Salud (ECTES) en América Latina y el Caribe. Para ello, se llevó a cabo un proceso de consenso, tanto virtual como presencial, con la participación de un grupo internacional de expertos que, para definir la propuesta, partieron de las encuestas disponibles en la región…
Socioeconomic patterns in use of private and public health services in Spain and Britain
Organisational justice and cognitive function in middle-aged employees
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the role that work-related factors play in the decline of cognitive function. This study examined the association between perceived organisational justice and cognitive function among middle-aged men and women. METHODS: Perceived organisational justice was measured at phases 1 (1985-8) and 2 (1989-90) of the Whitehall II study when the participants were 35-55 years old. Assessment of cognitive function at the scr…
Globesization’
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the density of fast food restaurants and the prevalence of obesity by gender across affluent nations. Data on Subway's restaurants per 100,000 people and proportions of men and women aged 15 years or older with a body mass index higher or equal than 30 kg/m2 were obtained for 26 of 34 advanced economies. Countries with the highest density of Subway restaurants such as the USA (7.52…
Socioeconomic patterns in health services use in Great Britain and Spain before and after the health system reforms of the 1990s
The G20 and the three global crises
The global economic crisis that started in 2007 in the USA plunged the entire world into a state of shock and is expected to significantly damage our future healthi.1 In the USA, some of the policy-makers that have contributed to the crisis by failing to adopt regulations of complex financial transactions2 such as Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner and Robert Rubin are now in charge of ‘cleaning up the mess’ in the Obama administration.3 So far, …
Work disability following major organisational change
BACKGROUND: Privatisation and private sector practices have been increasingly applied to the public sector in many industrialised countries. Over the same period, long-term work disability has risen substantially. We examined whether a major organisational change--the transfer of public sector work to executive agencies run on private sector lines--was associated with an increased risk of work disability. METHODS: The study uses self-reported dat…
Social Inequality in Physical and Mental Health Comorbidity Dynamics
OBJECTIVE: To examine how socioeconomic position influences physical and mental health dynamics. METHODS: The Whitehall II study of civil servants collected questionnaires on six occasions from 1991/93 to 2006/07. Civil service grade measured socioeconomic position and Short Form 36 General Health Survey component scores rated physical and mental health. Bivariate growth curve models of physical and mental health over 15 years were estimated for …
Organizational Justice and Sleeping Problems
OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that organizational injustice contributes to sleeping problems. Poor sleep quality can be a marker of prolonged emotional stress and has been shown to have serious effects on the immune system and metabolism. METHODS: Data were from the prospective Whitehall II study of white-collar British civil servants (3143 women and 6895 men, aged 35-55 years at baseline). Age, employment grade, health behaviors, and depres…
The policies–inequality feedback and health
BACKGROUND: Major research contributions aimed at explaining the association between economic inequality and health have concentrated on the plausibility of the material deprivation and psychosocial factors pathways. However, little work has analysed the reciprocal associations between public policies and inequality and their effect on health. METHODS: A conceptual framework was first proposed explaining how the public policies-inequality feedbac…
Changes in income inequality and suicide rates after “shock therapy”
In the last decades, public policies at the global and national levels have been dominated by reforms aiming at international integration such as deregulation, privatisation, stabilisation and liberalisation.1 A particularly radical version of these reforms, often called economic “shock therapy”, has been implemented in Eastern Europe, on the advice of economists such as Jeffrey Sachs and institutions including the International Monetary Fund.2 T…
Physical and cognitive function in midlife
BACKGROUND: Cognitive and physical functions are closely linked in old age, but less is known about this association in midlife. Whether cognitive function predicts physical function and whether physical function predicts cognitive function were assessed in middle-aged men and women. METHODS: Data were from Whitehall II, an ongoing large-scale, prospective occupational cohort study of employees from 20 London-based white-collar Civil Service depa…
Job strain as a predictor of disability pension
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether high job strain (a combination of high job demands and low job control) is a risk factor for disability pension. SETTING: Ten municipalities and 21 hospitals in Finland. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: A prospective cohort study of 20 386 female and 4 764 male Finnish public sector employees aged 19-50 using data from two surveys (baseline in 2000-2 and follow-up in 2005) and employers' registers. In addition to self-report…
Effects on Blood Pressure Do Not Explain the Association Between Organizational Justice and Coronary Heart Disease in the Whitehall II Study
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether lower BP mediates the inverse association between organizational justice and incident coronary heart disease (CHD). Previous studies suggest lower blood pressure (BP) and reduced risk of CHD among employees with high organizational justice (the perception of being treated fairly by supervisors). METHODS: Prospective occupational cohort study of 4250 men and 1812 women free of CHD and hypertension at study entry (the …
A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
Bacterial type II secretion systems (T2SS) translocate virulence factors, toxins and enzymes across the cell outer membrane (OM). An assembled T2SS has not yet been isolated in vitro. Here we use a fusion of negative stain and cryo-electron microscopy (EM) to reveal the core architecture of an assembled T2SS from the pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae . We show that 7 proteins form a ∼2.5 MDa complex that spans the cell envelope. The outer membrane c…
A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
This is the second part of a three-part glossary of terms from the social epidemiology of work organization. The first part presented terms related to the social psychology of work.1 The third part will describe terms from the sociology of labour markets.2 The concepts in this glossary have been drawn mainly from the sociology of organisations, business and management literatures. Most of the concepts deal with how work organisations are structur…
A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
Work is the means by which most human beings provide for their daily sustenance. Although many theorists suggest that work occupies a central place in human life, more recently some have questioned the centrality of work, arguing that we are now in a postindustrial, consumer-oriented society where consumption has replaced work as a source of health and disease in our societies.1,2 Nevertheless, even in wealthy countries most adults still spend mo…
Psychosocial factors and work related sickness absence among permanent and non-permanent employees
Study objective: To examine the association between psychosocial work factors and work related sickness absence among permanent and non-permanent employees by sex. Design: A cross sectional survey conducted in 2000 of a representative sample of the European Union total active population, aged 15 years and older. The independent variables were psychological job demands and job control as measures of psychosocial work environment, and work related …
A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
Bacterial type II secretion systems (T2SS) translocate virulence factors, toxins and enzymes across the cell outer membrane (OM). An assembled T2SS has not yet been isolated in vitro. Here we use a fusion of negative stain and cryo-electron microscopy (EM) to reveal the core architecture of an assembled T2SS from the pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae . We show that 7 proteins form a ∼2.5 MDa complex that spans the cell envelope. The outer membrane c…
Cuestionario básico y criterios metodológicos para las Encuestas sobre Condiciones de Trabajo, Empleo y Salud en América Latina y el Caribe
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar un cuestionario básico y criterios metodológicos mínimos, para ser considerados en futuras Encuestas sobre Condiciones de Trabajo, Empleo y Salud (ECTES) en América Latina y el Caribe. Para ello, se llevó a cabo un proceso de consenso, tanto virtual como presencial, con la participación de un grupo internacional de expertos que, para definir la propuesta, partieron de las encuestas disponibles en la región…
Job strain as a predictor of disability pension
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether high job strain (a combination of high job demands and low job control) is a risk factor for disability pension. SETTING: Ten municipalities and 21 hospitals in Finland. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: A prospective cohort study of 20 386 female and 4 764 male Finnish public sector employees aged 19-50 using data from two surveys (baseline in 2000-2 and follow-up in 2005) and employers' registers. In addition to self-report…
Psychosocial factors and work related sickness absence among permanent and non-permanent employees
Study objective: To examine the association between psychosocial work factors and work related sickness absence among permanent and non-permanent employees by sex. Design: A cross sectional survey conducted in 2000 of a representative sample of the European Union total active population, aged 15 years and older. The independent variables were psychological job demands and job control as measures of psychosocial work environment, and work related …
The policies–inequality feedback and health
BACKGROUND: Major research contributions aimed at explaining the association between economic inequality and health have concentrated on the plausibility of the material deprivation and psychosocial factors pathways. However, little work has analysed the reciprocal associations between public policies and inequality and their effect on health. METHODS: A conceptual framework was first proposed explaining how the public policies-inequality feedbac…
A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
This is the second part of a three-part glossary of terms from the social epidemiology of work organization. The first part presented terms related to the social psychology of work.1 The third part will describe terms from the sociology of labour markets.2 The concepts in this glossary have been drawn mainly from the sociology of organisations, business and management literatures. Most of the concepts deal with how work organisations are structur…
A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
Work is the means by which most human beings provide for their daily sustenance. Although many theorists suggest that work occupies a central place in human life, more recently some have questioned the centrality of work, arguing that we are now in a postindustrial, consumer-oriented society where consumption has replaced work as a source of health and disease in our societies.1,2 Nevertheless, even in wealthy countries most adults still spend mo…
Socioeconomic patterns in use of private and public health services in Spain and Britain
Work disability following major organisational change
BACKGROUND: Privatisation and private sector practices have been increasingly applied to the public sector in many industrialised countries. Over the same period, long-term work disability has risen substantially. We examined whether a major organisational change--the transfer of public sector work to executive agencies run on private sector lines--was associated with an increased risk of work disability. METHODS: The study uses self-reported dat…
Psychosocial factors and work related sickness absence among permanent and non-permanent employees
Study objective: To examine the association between psychosocial work factors and work related sickness absence among permanent and non-permanent employees by sex. Design: A cross sectional survey conducted in 2000 of a representative sample of the European Union total active population, aged 15 years and older. The independent variables were psychological job demands and job control as measures of psychosocial work environment, and work related …
A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
This is the second part of a three-part glossary of terms from the social epidemiology of work organization. The first part presented terms related to the social psychology of work.1 The third part will describe terms from the sociology of labour markets.2 The concepts in this glossary have been drawn mainly from the sociology of organisations, business and management literatures. Most of the concepts deal with how work organisations are structur…
A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
Work is the means by which most human beings provide for their daily sustenance. Although many theorists suggest that work occupies a central place in human life, more recently some have questioned the centrality of work, arguing that we are now in a postindustrial, consumer-oriented society where consumption has replaced work as a source of health and disease in our societies.1,2 Nevertheless, even in wealthy countries most adults still spend mo…
A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
Bacterial type II secretion systems (T2SS) translocate virulence factors, toxins and enzymes across the cell outer membrane (OM). An assembled T2SS has not yet been isolated in vitro. Here we use a fusion of negative stain and cryo-electron microscopy (EM) to reveal the core architecture of an assembled T2SS from the pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae . We show that 7 proteins form a ∼2.5 MDa complex that spans the cell envelope. The outer membrane c…
Effects on Blood Pressure Do Not Explain the Association Between Organizational Justice and Coronary Heart Disease in the Whitehall II Study
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether lower BP mediates the inverse association between organizational justice and incident coronary heart disease (CHD). Previous studies suggest lower blood pressure (BP) and reduced risk of CHD among employees with high organizational justice (the perception of being treated fairly by supervisors). METHODS: Prospective occupational cohort study of 4250 men and 1812 women free of CHD and hypertension at study entry (the …
Social Inequality in Physical and Mental Health Comorbidity Dynamics
OBJECTIVE: To examine how socioeconomic position influences physical and mental health dynamics. METHODS: The Whitehall II study of civil servants collected questionnaires on six occasions from 1991/93 to 2006/07. Civil service grade measured socioeconomic position and Short Form 36 General Health Survey component scores rated physical and mental health. Bivariate growth curve models of physical and mental health over 15 years were estimated for …
Organizational Justice and Sleeping Problems
OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that organizational injustice contributes to sleeping problems. Poor sleep quality can be a marker of prolonged emotional stress and has been shown to have serious effects on the immune system and metabolism. METHODS: Data were from the prospective Whitehall II study of white-collar British civil servants (3143 women and 6895 men, aged 35-55 years at baseline). Age, employment grade, health behaviors, and depres…
The policies–inequality feedback and health
BACKGROUND: Major research contributions aimed at explaining the association between economic inequality and health have concentrated on the plausibility of the material deprivation and psychosocial factors pathways. However, little work has analysed the reciprocal associations between public policies and inequality and their effect on health. METHODS: A conceptual framework was first proposed explaining how the public policies-inequality feedbac…
Changes in income inequality and suicide rates after “shock therapy”
In the last decades, public policies at the global and national levels have been dominated by reforms aiming at international integration such as deregulation, privatisation, stabilisation and liberalisation.1 A particularly radical version of these reforms, often called economic “shock therapy”, has been implemented in Eastern Europe, on the advice of economists such as Jeffrey Sachs and institutions including the International Monetary Fund.2 T…
Physical and cognitive function in midlife
BACKGROUND: Cognitive and physical functions are closely linked in old age, but less is known about this association in midlife. Whether cognitive function predicts physical function and whether physical function predicts cognitive function were assessed in middle-aged men and women. METHODS: Data were from Whitehall II, an ongoing large-scale, prospective occupational cohort study of employees from 20 London-based white-collar Civil Service depa…
Job strain as a predictor of disability pension
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether high job strain (a combination of high job demands and low job control) is a risk factor for disability pension. SETTING: Ten municipalities and 21 hospitals in Finland. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: A prospective cohort study of 20 386 female and 4 764 male Finnish public sector employees aged 19-50 using data from two surveys (baseline in 2000-2 and follow-up in 2005) and employers' registers. In addition to self-report…
The G20 and the three global crises
The global economic crisis that started in 2007 in the USA plunged the entire world into a state of shock and is expected to significantly damage our future healthi.1 In the USA, some of the policy-makers that have contributed to the crisis by failing to adopt regulations of complex financial transactions2 such as Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner and Robert Rubin are now in charge of ‘cleaning up the mess’ in the Obama administration.3 So far, …
Work disability following major organisational change
BACKGROUND: Privatisation and private sector practices have been increasingly applied to the public sector in many industrialised countries. Over the same period, long-term work disability has risen substantially. We examined whether a major organisational change--the transfer of public sector work to executive agencies run on private sector lines--was associated with an increased risk of work disability. METHODS: The study uses self-reported dat…
Globesization’
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the density of fast food restaurants and the prevalence of obesity by gender across affluent nations. Data on Subway's restaurants per 100,000 people and proportions of men and women aged 15 years or older with a body mass index higher or equal than 30 kg/m2 were obtained for 26 of 34 advanced economies. Countries with the highest density of Subway restaurants such as the USA (7.52…
Socioeconomic patterns in health services use in Great Britain and Spain before and after the health system reforms of the 1990s
Organisational justice and cognitive function in middle-aged employees
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the role that work-related factors play in the decline of cognitive function. This study examined the association between perceived organisational justice and cognitive function among middle-aged men and women. METHODS: Perceived organisational justice was measured at phases 1 (1985-8) and 2 (1989-90) of the Whitehall II study when the participants were 35-55 years old. Assessment of cognitive function at the scr…
Socioeconomic patterns in use of private and public health services in Spain and Britain
Cuestionario básico y criterios metodológicos para las Encuestas sobre Condiciones de Trabajo, Empleo y Salud en América Latina y el Caribe
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar un cuestionario básico y criterios metodológicos mínimos, para ser considerados en futuras Encuestas sobre Condiciones de Trabajo, Empleo y Salud (ECTES) en América Latina y el Caribe. Para ello, se llevó a cabo un proceso de consenso, tanto virtual como presencial, con la participación de un grupo internacional de expertos que, para definir la propuesta, partieron de las encuestas disponibles en la región…
Gender Differences in the Association between Positive Drinking Attitudes and Alcohol-Related Problems. The Wirus Study
Background: Alcohol consumption is deeply integrated in people's social- and work lives and, thus, constitutes a serious public health challenge. Attitudes toward drinking stand out as important predictors of drinking, but have to date been sparsely studied in employee populations. This study explores the association of employees' attitudes toward drinking with their alcohol-related problems, and whether this association is moderated by gender an…
Sociopolitical values and social institutions
Work contributes to health and health inequity in complex ways. The traditional exposure-disease framework used in occupational health research is not equipped to address societal contexts in which work is embedded. The political economy approach to public health directly examines macro-level societal contexts, but the attention to work in this literature is mostly on unemployment. As a result, we have limited understanding of work as a social de…
Prevalence and Geographic Distribution of Self-Reported Chronic Kidney Disease and Potential Risk Factors in Central America
Our findings supplement prior CKDu findings regarding a high prevalence of work-related CKD among 30- to 49-year-old mestizo males in the primary and secondary sectors, in hot temperature areas, in the central and western region, and overlapping with persons reporting two or more CKDu risk factors. Moreover, several geographic areas with CKDu risk factor clusters had no reported work-related CKD. These areas represent new industries and sectors t…
Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Workplace Health and Well-being (10 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Population (7 works)