Butch de Castro

Ph.D. 2003, Johns Hopkins University. Occupational health among minority and immigrant workers, work organization, emotional labor, environmental health, and occupational health policy.

Department: Psychosocial and Community Health
Position: Assistant Professor
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Phone: (206) 543-4436
Box: 357263
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Research Summary:

Dr. de Castro's primary research interests include occupational health issues among minority and immigrant workers, work organization, and emotional labor. He also has extensive experience in national-level occupational health policy from both labor and government perspectives. He served as senior staff for occupational and environmental health at the American Nurses Association and, prior to this, was on staff in the Office of Occupational Health Nursing at the national office of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Castro, A. B. d.; Garcia, G.; Gee, G. C.; Tsai, J. H.-C.; Rue, T.; Takeuchi, D. T., (Forthcoming), Smoking and the Asian American workforce in the National Latino and Asian American Study, American Journal of Industrial Medicine.

de Castro, A. B.; Cabrera, S. L.; Gee, G. C.; Fujishiro, K.; Tagalog, E. A., (2009), Occupational health and safety issues among nurses in the Philippines, AAOHN journal : official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, 57: 4, 149-57.

de Castro, A.; Gee, G.; Takeuchi, D., (2008), Job-Related Stress and Chronic Health Conditions Among Filipino Immigrants, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 10: 6, 551-558.

de Castro, A. B.; Gee, G. C.; Takeuchi, D., (2008), Workplace Discrimination and Health Among Filipinos in the United States, American Journal of Public Health, 98: 3, 520-527.

de Castro, A. B.; Gee, G. C.; Takeuchi, D., (2008), BUSINESS AND LEADERSHIP - Relationship Between Job Dissatisfaction and Physical and Psychological Health Among Filipino Immigrants, AAOHN journal : official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses., 56: 1, 33.

Nelson, A. L.; Collins, J.; Knibbe, H.; Cookson, K.; de Castro, A. B.; Whipple, K. L., (2007), Uphold safer patient handling policies: Sort through the myths and facts to determine best practices for patient lifting, NURSING MANAGEMENT -ILLINOIS THEN SPRINGHOUSE-, 38: 3, 26-33.

de Castro, A. B., (2006), Handle with Care: the American Nurses Association's campaign to address work-related musculoskeletal disorders, Orthopaedic nursing / National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses, 25: 6.

de Castro, A. B.; Curbow, B.; Agnew, J.; Haythornthwaite, J. A.; Fitzgerald, S. T., (2006), Measuring emotional labor among young workers: refinement of the Emotions at Work Scale, AAOHN journal : official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, 54: 5, 201-9.

de Castro, A. B.; Fujishiro, K.; Sweitzer, E.; Oliva, J., (2006), How Immigrant Workers Experience Workplace Problems: A Qualitative Study, ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, 61: 6, 249-258.

de Castro, A. B.; Hagan, P.; Nelson, A., (2006), Prioritizing safe patient handling: The American Nurses Association's Handle With Care Campaign, The Journal of nursing administration, 36: 7-8.

Castro, A. B. d., (2005), The OSHA General Duty Clause: Protecting workers in the absence of a regulation, The American journal of nursing., 104.

de Castro, A. B.; Peterson, C., (2005), Preventing exposure to influenza: steps health care workers can take, The American journal of nursing, 105: 1.

West, C.; de Castro, A. B.; Fitzgerald, S. T., (2005), The youth workforce: Unique occupational health considerations and challenges , American Association for Occupational Health Nurses Journal , 53: 7, 297-305.

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