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
Part of Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, p. 954-976, 2026
- DOI for Allergic Rhinitis and Its Impact on Asthma (ARIA)-EAACI Guidelines — 2024–2025 Revision: Part I — Guidelines on Intranasal Treatments
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Allergic sensitization in asthma and COPD in the NOVELTY study
Part of Respiratory Medicine, p. 108605, 2026
Part of Nature Medicine, 2026
Part of Applied Ergonomics, p. 104699-104699, 2026
- DOI for Assessing forearm exertion in manual tasks with surface EMG: A comparative analysis of through-forearm vs. muscle-specific EMG placements
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Part of BMC Infectious Diseases, 2026
- DOI for Association of pre-pandemic respiratory system diseases with long COVID: a population-based case-control study
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Associations between respiratory health, reported traffic, and occupational-related exposure
Part of European Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2026
- DOI for Associations between respiratory health, reported traffic, and occupational-related exposure
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Part of European Review of Aging and Physical Activity, 2026
- DOI for Changes in physical activity across retirement: a compositional data analysis approach in a Swedish cohort study
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Part of Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing, 2026
- DOI for Digital Documentation—A Nonprioritized Subject in Higher Nursing Education.: A Qualitative Study With Educators
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Part of Environment & Health, p. 630-640, 2026
- DOI for Early-Life Ozone Exposure and Childhood Allergic Rhinitis: Critical Exposure Windows, Exposure-Response Relationships, and Protective Modifiers
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Part of Applied Ergonomics, 2026
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, p. 1-15, 2026
- DOI for Employees' experiences of involving their managers in the Return-to-Work process through a three-party meeting in primary healthcare - a retrospective interview study: a retrospective interview study
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Environmental pollutants and adrenal steroids biosynthesis in elderly
Part of Science of the Total Environment, p. 181021-181021, 2026
From biomonitoring studies to lowered occupational exposure limits for hexavalent chromium
Part of Societal Impacts, 2026
- DOI for From biomonitoring studies to lowered occupational exposure limits for hexavalent chromium
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, p. 41-50, 2026
- DOI for From checkups to change: Longitudinal changes in lifestyle-related factors following repeated occupational health assessments among 106 005 Swedish workers
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Part of DISCOVER PUBLIC HEALTH, 2026
- DOI for Frontline knowledge, attitudes, and practices on climate change and its link to zoonotic diseases: a mixed-methods study of healthcare workers in Ada East, Ghana
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, p. 1-10, 2026
- DOI for High proportion of depression and anxiety in younger patients with COPD: a cross-sectional study in primary care in Sweden
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Indoor airborne bacterial communities and adult lung health: A cross-sectional study
Part of International journal of hygiene and environmental health, 2026
- DOI for Indoor airborne bacterial communities and adult lung health: A cross-sectional study
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Long-term lung function trajectories in Swedish COVID-19 ICU survivors: a two-year follow-up study
Part of European Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2026
- DOI for Long-term lung function trajectories in Swedish COVID-19 ICU survivors: a two-year follow-up study
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Part of International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, p. 250-258, 2026
- DOI for Managers' and safety representatives' perspectives on electronic monitoring and occupational health in the transport and logistics industries in Sweden
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Part of Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, p. 427-453, 2026
- DOI for Methodology for the Development of the Allergic Rhinitis and Its Impact on Asthma (ARIA)-EAACI 2024-2025 Guidelines: From Evidence-to-Decision Frameworks to Digitalised Shared Decision-Making Algorithms
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Part of Thorax, p. 22-32, 2026
Part of JMIR Research Protocols, 2026
- DOI for Process Evaluation of a Structured Method for Systematic and Integrated Occupational Safety and Health and Patient Safety Management Systems (SIOHPS): Protocol for a Convergent Parallel Mixed Methods Study
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Part of The International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, p. 1-11, 2026
- DOI for Prognostic Value of Impaired Spirometry in Patients with Myocardial Infarction: A Longitudinal Study of Two European Cohorts
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Part of Health Physics, p. 77-86, 2026
- DOI for Radiation Doses and Lifetime Attributable Risk of Cancer in Sweden after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident
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Part of FAMILY MEDICINE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 2026
- DOI for Risk factors for COPD exacerbations and mortality, and variation between primary care settings: the PRAXIS cohort study in Sweden
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Strengthening Support for Immigrant Workers: Insights from an Active Labour Market Programme
Part of Social Sciences, 2026
- DOI for Strengthening Support for Immigrant Workers: Insights from an Active Labour Market Programme
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Taste dysfunction in long COVID
Part of Chemical Senses, 2026
The role of the nasal microbiome in linking ozone pollution to allergic rhinitis in children
Part of Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2026
Translanguaging as an official support measure for newly arrived students in Sweden
Part of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, p. 645-659, 2026
- DOI for Translanguaging as an official support measure for newly arrived students in Sweden
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Part of Cureus, 2025
- DOI for A Comparative Analysis of Bacterial Communities in Settled Air Dust and Vacuumed Surface Dust From University Dormitories and Associations With Respiratory Health
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A Feasibility Study of the "Motus" System for Wearable-Based Movement Behaviors at Scale
Part of Journal of Physical Activity and Health, p. 1244-1255, 2025
- DOI for A Feasibility Study of the "Motus" System for Wearable-Based Movement Behaviors at Scale
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2025
- DOI for A model for estimating radiation doses and population cancer risk in Sweden after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident in 1986
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Part of Metabolites, 2025
- DOI for A Multicenter Exploration of Sick Building Syndrome Symptoms in Malaysian Schools: Indoor Pollutants, Microbial Taxa, and Metabolites.
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
- DOI for A novel method for assessing postmortem interval using radon radioisotopic decay: an internal radon 'time of death clock'
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 2025
- DOI for Adding information on multisite and widespread pain to the STarT back screening tool when identifying low back pain patients at risk of worse prognosis
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Part of Environmental Health Insights, 2025
- DOI for Assessing the Knowledge and Experience of Healthcare Workers in Zoonoses and the One Health Approach: A Cross-Sectional Study in Ghana
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Part of Sustainable cities and society, 2025
Part of Journal of Internal Medicine, p. 697-710, 2025
Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
- DOI for Associations between daily composition of 24 h physical behavior with affective states and working memory
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Part of BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2025
- DOI for Associations between knee pain and knee-loading physical activities at work and leisure: a cross-sectional study based on accelerometer measurements
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Part of Respiratory Medicine, 2025
- DOI for Associations of comorbid heart disease and depression/anxiety with multidimensional breathlessness in COPD: A cross-sectional study
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Part of Annals of Work Exposures and Health, p. 722-735, 2025
- DOI for Challenges to estimating and managing risks with hexavalent chromium exposure: a mixed-methods study of Swedish workplaces
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Part of Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2025
Part of Radiation Protection Dosimetry, p. 1125-1130, 2025
- DOI for Comparing dose response of cancer incidence in Sweden after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident with Life Span Study of atomic bomb survivors
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Comparing Physical Activity Metrics From Different Placements of Thigh-Worn Accelerometers
Part of Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, 2025
- DOI for Comparing Physical Activity Metrics From Different Placements of Thigh-Worn Accelerometers
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Competence Profiles of Vocational Teachers in Sweden
Part of International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, p. 410-432, 2025
- DOI for Competence Profiles of Vocational Teachers in Sweden
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Part of Toxics, 2025
- DOI for Contamination and Health Risk Assessment of Potentially Toxic Elements in Household Dust Across the Haze Season in Upper Northern Thailand
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Part of Work, p. 1886-1899, 2025
Part of International Journal of Environmental Health Research, p. 1156-1169, 2025
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, p. 323-332, 2025
- DOI for Could work-related muscle activity explain sex differences in neck pain?: A meta-analysis of a pooled dataset
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