my.jhsph.edu   Home Admissions Academics Departments Research & Centers Practice
Faculty
DIRECTORIES
Faculty Directory

HPM Faculty Directory


GLOBAL PROJECTS
Global Projects Map

HPM Project Map

TOOLS
Contact JHSPH
Feedback

Email this Page
Calendar
Course Search
Faculty
Joan Benach
Associate
Academic Degrees
MD, PHD
Departmental Affiliation
Health Policy and Management
Joint Departmental Affiliations
Health Policy and Management
Phone: 34935422619
Research and Professional Experience

Health inequalities, Occupational health, Precarious employment, Small area geographical analysis, Psychosocial- risk factors, Health policy priorities

Keywords

Health inequalities, Precarious employment, Spatial epidemiology, Social epidemiology, Policy priorities

Selected Publications

o Giskes K, Kunst AE, Benach J, Borrell C, Costa G, Dahl E, Dalstra JAA, Federico B, Helmert U, Judge K, Lahelma E, Moussa K, Ostergren PO, Platt S, Prattala R, Rasmussen NK, Mackenbach JP. Trends in smoking behaviour by socioeconomic position between 1985 and 2000 in nine European countries J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;000:1–7. doi: 10.1136/jech.2004.025684

o Artazcoz L, Borrell C, Benach J, Cortès I, Rohlfs I. Women, family demands and health: The importance of employment status and socio-economic position. Soc Sci Med 2004;59:263-274.

o Gimeno D, Benavides FG, Benach J, Amick III BC. Distribution of sickness absence in the European Union countries. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2004;61:867-869.

o Gimeno D, Benavides FG, Amick III BC, Benach J, Martínez JM. Psychosocial factors and work-related sickness absence among permanent and non-permanent employees J Epidem Community Health 2004;58:870-876.

o Benach J, Gimeno D, Benavides FG, Martínez JM, Torné MM. Types of employment and health in the European Union: changes from 1995 to 2000. Eur J Public Health 2004;14:314-321.

o Benavides FG, Pérez G, Martínez J, Martínez JM, Gispert R, Benach J. Underreporting of fatal occupational injuries in Catalonia (Spain). Occupational Medicine 2004;54:110-4.

o Borrell C, Muntaner C, Benach J, Artazcoz L. Social class and self-perceived health among men and women: what is the role of work organization, household material standards and household labour. Soc Sci Med 2004;58:1869-87.

o Gimeno D, Benavides FG, Mira M, Martínez JM, Benach J. External validation of psychosocial risk factors in a bus driver sample. Journal of Occupational Health 2004;46:43-48.

o Benach J, Yasui Y, Martínez JM, Borrell C, Pasarín MI, Daponte A. The geography of the highest mortality areas in Spain: a striking cluster pattern in the south-western region of the country. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2004;61:280-281

o Artazcoz L, Artieda L, Borrell C, Cortès I, Benach J, García V. Combining job and family demands and being healthy: What are the differences between men and women? Eur J Public Health 2004;14:43–48.

o Artazcoz L, Benach J, Borrell C, Cortès I. Unemployment and mental health: Understanding the interaction between gender, family roles, and social class. Am J Public Health 2004;94:82-88.

o Muntaner C, Borrell C, Benach J, Pasarín M, Fernandez E. The associations of social class and social stratification with patterns of general and mental health in a Spanish population. Int J Epidemiol 2003;32:950–958.

o Navarro V, Borrell C, Benach J, Muntaner C, Quiroga A, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Verges N, Guma J, Pasarín MI. The importance of the political and the social in explaining mortality differentials among the countries of the OECD, 1950-1998. Int J Health Serv. 2003;33(3):419-94.

o Mackenbach JP, Bakker MJ for the European Network on Interventions and Policies to Reduce Inequalities in Health. Tackling Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: an Analysis of Recent European Experiences. Lancet 2003;362:1409-14.

o Benavides FG, Delclos GL, Cooper S, Benach J. Fatal occupational accidents in the United States of America and the European Union: similarities and differences. Am J Ind Med 2003;44:385-391.

o Benach J, Yasui Y, Borrell C, Rosa E, Pasarín MI, Benach N, Español E, Martínez JM, Daponte A. Examining geographic patterns of mortality. The Atlas of Spain mortality in small areas (1987-1995). Eur J Public Health 2003;13:115-123.

o Benach J, Yasui Y, Borrell C, Pasarín MI, Martínez JM, Daponte A. The public health burden of material deprivation: excess mortality in leading causes of death in Spain. Preventive Medicine 2003;36:300-308.

o Benavides FG, Benach J, Mira M, Sáez M, Barceló A. Occupational categories and sickness absence certified as attributable to common diseases Eur J Public Health 2003;13:51-55.

© , Johns Hopkins University. All rights reserved.
Web policies, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205