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Ramos, S., Mardon, . & Carvalho, H. (2018). AGE Survey: a Tool to Support the Study and Intervention on Health and Age at Work. 13th European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference.

S. C. Ramos et al.,  "AGE Survey: a Tool to Support the Study and Intervention on Health and Age at Work", in 13th European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conf., Lisboa, 2018

@misc{ramos2018_1734886060426,
	author = "Ramos, S. and Mardon, . and Carvalho, H.",
	title = "AGE Survey: a Tool to Support the Study and Intervention on Health and Age at Work",
	year = "2018"
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - AGE Survey: a Tool to Support the Study and Intervention on Health and Age at Work
T2  - 13th European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference
AU  - Ramos, S.
AU  - Mardon, .
AU  - Carvalho, H.
PY  - 2018
CY  - Lisboa
AB  - The complex relationship between age and work goes beyond the association
between the exposure to risk factors and early ageing. Only few studies attempt to
encompass this complexity and try to put this discussion in a temporal dimension,
considering the developments of health and work over lifetime.
This proposal presents some results of a study conducted in Portugal about working
conditions, occupational risks and health problems.
European studies, as ESTEV and VISAT, both in France, used a longitudinal design
with repeated measures in order to monitor health issues taking into account job
modifications and age evolution. From these experiences, other studies were
performed in this field, with less extensive instruments, for example the SVP50 and
EVREST. In Portugal we developed the first survey on health and age – AGE– based
on the previous experiences and supported by the strong network between
researchers from these groups.
The first AGE data collection was conducted in 2016, in collaboration with the
National Authority for Working Conditions. The survey was administrated by labour
inspectors in their regular visits to companies, with 3106 surveyed workers. AGE
dimensions focus on: working conditions (working time, schedules,
demands/resources, perceived risks); health complaints and the perceived (by
workers) relationship between these problems and their work, in order to analyse
the relationship between age, health and work; and questions about retirement
expectations, in order to identify retirement predictors.
The results show interesting relations between working conditions and the health
problems identified by workers and, with strong evidences that age plays a key role
in the capacity to recognise the connection between work constraints and health
problems. Results also show different tendencies related to both perceived
expositions and perceived health problems for different age groups, emphasising
the need to consider the specificity of diverse situations in the moment of
intervention.
Findings also show that these health problems are frequently reported by workers,
as related to their work, mostly in work situations of co-exposition (when workers
are exposed to several constrains at the same time). The association of different
constraints seem to be particularly hard for workers, due to the high proportion of
reported health problems.
ER  -