Carles Muntaner

Nota biográfica:

Carles Muntaner studied Medicine in the Universitat de Barcelona, where he also studied philosophy, and medical psychology in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He worked as post-doctoral fellowship in the United States, in the Addiction Research Center of the National Insitute of Drug Abuse, in the Department of Mental of the Hopkins School of Public Health, and in the Laboratory of Socio-environmental Studies of the National Institute of Mental Health. He has worked as assistant professor and as professor in the Behavioral and Community Health Department and the Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Department of the Maryland University.

He has recived fundings form the FIS, the Fulbright Comission, the Fogaaty International, the USA National Institutes of Health (NIDA, NIMH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIOSH (USA) and the Swedish Work Environment fund. He has worked in Europe, Africa and North America.

His research in social epidemiology is centred in social class, racism and gender effects over the health of the populations, specially by work conditions (for example, autonomy, charge, temporal contracts, domination, exploitation, inequalities).

His research lines include: conceptualization and mesure of social class, racism and gender, organization and hierarchy in the workplace, contextual effects of neighbourhood, cities and regions on depression, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders and the use of substances.

His research in occupational health is focused in the services sector and health workers (nurse assistants, home care workers, gerontology) collaborating with trade unions in the USA.

Publicaciones :

• Benach J, Muntaner C. Precarious employment and health: developing a research agenda. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (4): 276-277.

• Hadden WC, Muntaner C, Benach J, Gimeno D, Benavides FG. A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation: Part 3, Terms from the sociology of labour markets. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61 (1): 6-8.

• Menéndez M, Benach J, Muntaner C, Amable M, O'Campo P. Is precarious employment more damaging to women's health than men's? Soc Sci Med 2007; 64 (4): 776-781.

• Benavides FG, Benach J, Muntaner C, Delclòs J, Catot N, Amable M. Associations between temporary employment and occupational injury: what are the mechanisms? Occup Environ Med 2006; 63 (6): 416-421.

• Borrell C, Marí-Dell'Olmo M, Rodríguez-Sanz M, García-Olalla P, Caylà JA, Benach J, et al. Socioeconomic position and excess mortality during the heat wave of 2003 in Barcelona. Eur J Epidemiol 2006; 21 (9): 633-640.

• Muntaner C, Benach J, Hadden WC, Gimeno D, Benavides FG. A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation: Part 1, Terms from social psychology. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006; 60 (11): 914-916.

• Muntaner C, Benach J, Hadden WC, Gimeno D, Benavides FG. A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation: part 2 Terms from the sociology of work and organisations. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006; 60 (12): 1010-1012.

• Muntaner C, Dussen DJ van, Li Y, Zimmerman S, Chung H, Benach J. Work organization, economic inequality, and depression among nursing assistants: a multilevel modeling approach. Psychol Rep 2006; 98 (2): 585-601.

• Muntaner C, Salazar RM, Benach J, Armada F. Venezuela's Barrio Adentro: an alternative to neoliberalism in health care. Int J Health Serv 2006; 36 (4): 803-811.

• Navarro V, Muntaner C, Borrell C, Benach J, Quiroga A, Rodríguez-Sanz M, et al. Politics and health outcomes. Lancet 2006; 368 (9540): 1033-1037.

• Borrell C, Muntaner C, Benach J, Artazcoz L. Social class and self-reported health status among men and women: what is the role of work organisation, household material standards and household labour? Soc Sci Med 2004; 58 (10): 1869-1887.

• Muntaner C, Borrell C, Benach J, Pasarín MI, Fernández 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 (6): 950-958.

• Navarro V, Borrell C, Benach J, Muntaner C, Quiroga A, Rodríguez-Sanz M, et al. 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): 419-494.

• Benach J, Amable M, Muntaner C, Benavides FG. The consequences of flexible work for health: are we looking at the right place? J Epidemiol Community Health 2002; 56 (6): 405-406.

• Benach J, Muntaner C, Benavides FG, Amable M, Jódar P. A new occupational health agenda for a new work environment. Scand J Work Environ Health 2002; 28 (3): 191-196.

• Benavides FG, Benach J, Muntaner C. Psychosocial risk factors at the workplace: is there enough evidence to establish reference values? J Epidemiol Community Health 2002; 56 (4): 244-245.

• Muntaner C, Lynch JW, Hillemeier M, Lee JH, David R, Benach J, et al. Economic inequality, working-class power, social capital, and cause-specific mortality in wealthy countries. Int J Health Serv 2002; 32 (4): 629-656.

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