Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Our research in occupational and environmental medicine is about the importance of various environmental factors for health and covers all age groups. We run projects on work environment, indoor environment or outdoor environment, and the exposures can be physical, chemical, biological, psychosocial as well as organizational.
Description of our research
In our research, we use both quantitative and qualitative methods and do both epidemiological studies, experimental studies and intervention studies. We are also developing new measurement methods.
The Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) unit is comprised of a unit at the Department of Medical Sciences and a clinical unit at the Uppsala University Hospital serving the Counties of Uppsala, Dalarna and Gävleborg. The main task for occupational and environmental medicine today is to find exposures at workplaces and in the indoor and outdoor environment which may affect human beings in a negative or positive way.
Group members
Research projects
- Evaluation of the Demand- and Ability Protocol to promote early employer involvement and return to work for people with common mental disorders or chronic pain
- HaRe: A methodology for Retail to Reduce the Risk of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
- New wearable measurement technique for investigation, risk assessment, and evaluation of sedentary and whole-body vibrations during work in vibrating vehicles
- Receiving occupational injury claim for a vibration injury – what happens next?
- Demand and Ability Protocol – a method to use in pain rehabilitation to strengthen cooperation
- Useful tools for identifying and risk assessing hand-intensive work
- Work Together: Using a systems approach to update an occupational health service and reduce the health gap
Publications
2024
A user-centred development process for an equipment vest for the Swedish police force
Part of International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics, p. 56-77, 2024
Part of EBioMedicine, 2024
Part of Journal of Physical Activity and Health, p. 1-8, 2024
Part of Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2024
- DOI for Assessing the performance of a targeted absolute quantification isotope dilution liquid chromatograhy tandem mass spectrometry assay versus a commercial nontargeted relative quantification assay for detection of three major perfluoroalkyls in human blood
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Part of Building and Environment, 2024
Part of BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2024
Body mass index trajectories from birth to early adulthood and lung function development.
Part of European Respiratory Journal, 2024
Part of Environment International, 2024
- DOI for Circulating lung-cancer-related non-coding RNAs are associated with occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium - A cross-sectional study within the SafeChrom project
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Part of BMC Public Health, 2024
- DOI for Collaboration in the return-to-work process after sick leave due to common mental disorders: a qualitative study of stakeholders' views on goals and roles
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Part of European Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2024
Part of The World Allergy Organization journal, p. 100973, 2024
Part of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, p. 136-141, 2024
- DOI for COVID-19: incidence and mortality in Sweden comparing all foreign-born to all Swedish-born individuals in different occupations in an unvaccinated cohort of year 2020
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Part of COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR REPORTS, 2024
- DOI for Digital competence is a must: Manager and safety representative perspectives on evolving job skills and balancing digital work environments in transportation, logistics, and home care
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Does ICS treatment increase the risk of pneumonia in asthma?
Part of Thorax, p. 389-390, 2024
Part of Atmosphere, 2024
Part of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2024
Environmental contaminants, sex hormones and SHBG in an elderly population
Part of Environmental Research, 2024
Environmental exposures, body composition and pulmonary function: How can we improve diagnostics?
2024
Part of Frontiers in Public Health, 2024
- DOI for Ergonomics and performance of using prismatic loupes in simulated surgical tasks among surgeons: a randomized controlled, cross-over trial
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2024
Part of Respiratory Medicine, 2024
Part of International Journal of Environmental Health Research, p. 213-224, 2024
Gas cooking indoors and respiratory symptoms in the ECRHS cohort
Part of International journal of hygiene and environmental health, 2024
Part of Thorax, p. 412-21, 2024
Part of Environmental Research, 2024
Part of International journal of hygiene and environmental health, 2024
Part of Air quality, atmosphere and health, p. 1661-1675, 2024
- DOI for High-resolution dispersion modelling of PM2.5, PM10, NOx and NO2 exposure in metropolitan areas in Sweden 2000-2018: large health gains due to decreased population exposure
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Part of Building and Environment, 2024
Part of Building and Environment, 2024
Part of Environmental Research, 2024
Part of Heart Rhythm, p. 2366-2367, 2024
Part of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, p. 1297-1306, 2024
Long-term ambient air pollution and coronary atherosclerosis: Results from the Swedish SCAPIS study
Part of Atherosclerosis, 2024
Long-term ambient air pollution exposure and renal function and biomarkers of renal disease
Part of Environmental Health, 2024
Long-Term Oxygen Therapy for 24 or 15 Hours per Day in Severe Hypoxemia.
Part of New England Journal of Medicine, p. 977-988, 2024
Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2024
- DOI for Lung function at 1-year follow-up in patients with persistent dyspnea after mild COVID-19: comparisons with moderate and critical COVID-19
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Part of Environmental Science and Technology, p. 1813-1822, 2024
Part of Building and Environment, 2024
- DOI for Mold, bacteria, allergens, and volatile organic compounds in homes associated with tear film break-up time, oculo-nasal symptoms, and allergic rhinitis
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Part of Science of the Total Environment, 2024
- DOI for Organophosphate insecticide exposure and respiratory symptoms among school children in Northern Thailand: Interaction by biomass burning, dampness and season
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Part of Diabetologia, p. 1051-1065, 2024
- DOI for Relationship of device measured physical activity type and posture with cardiometabolic health markers: pooled dose-response associations from the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep Consortium
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Part of Journal of Asthma and Allergy, p. 621-632, 2024
- DOI for Risk Factors Associated with Asthma Control and Quality of Life in Patients with Mild Asthma Without Preventer Treatment: a Cross-Sectional Study
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Part of ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, 2024
Part of PLOS ONE, 2024
- DOI for Screening for antibacterial and cytotoxic activities of Sri Lankan marine sponges through microfractionation: Isolation of bromopyrrole alkaloids from Stylissa massa
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Part of International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2024
Part of Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, p. 1972-1974, 2024
Translanguaging as an official support measure for newly arrived students in Sweden
Part of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Part of JMIR Formative Research, 2023
Part of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023
- DOI for A Quantitative Study on Employees' Experiences of a Support Model for Systematic Work Environment Management in Swedish Municipalities
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Part of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023