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
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 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 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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Characteristics related to biomarkers of neutrophil, eosinophil, and mast cell activation.
Part of Scientific Reports, p. 32467, 2025
Part of Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2025
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 Work, p. 1886-1899, 2025
Part of International Journal of Environmental Health Research, p. 1156-1169, 2025
Part of Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2025
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, p. 444-448, 2025
- DOI for Development of a quantitative job exposure matrix for standing, walking, and forward bending among pregnant workers - The PRECISE JEM
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Development of the PIPA Method-Participate, Identify, Prioritize, and Act
Part of Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, p. 869-876, 2025
- DOI for Development of the PIPA Method-Participate, Identify, Prioritize, and Act
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Part of Communications Medicine, 2025
- DOI for Developmental low-dose bisphenol A exposure leads to extensive transcriptome female masculinization and male feminization later in life
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Part of Circulation, p. 159-170, 2025
- DOI for Device-Measured 24-Hour Movement Behaviors and Blood Pressure: A 6-Part Compositional Individual Participant Data Analysis in the ProPASS Consortium
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Part of Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2025
Part of Environmental Pollution, 2025
Part of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, p. 69-88, 2025
Part of PULMONOLOGY, 2025
- DOI for Endotoxin exposure associated with respiratory health among European schoolchildren: The SINPHONIE study
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Part of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2025
- DOI for Environmental impacts on childhood rhinitis: The role of green spaces, air pollutants, and indoor microbial communities in Taiyuan, a city in Northern China
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Exhaled nitric oxide stability over two years in relation to COPD outcomes
Part of Journal of Breath Research, 2025
- DOI for Exhaled nitric oxide stability over two years in relation to COPD outcomes
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Part of Environmental Science and Technology, p. 12060-12073, 2025
Part of Sustainable cities and society, 2025
Eye diseases in chronic kidney disease: A nationwide longitudinal case-control study in Sweden.
Part of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, p. 209-217, 2025
- DOI for Eye diseases in chronic kidney disease: A nationwide longitudinal case-control study in Sweden.
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Part of European Respiratory Journal, 2025
Part of Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2025
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, p. 1-10, 2025
Part of Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2025
Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
- DOI for Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on trends in health conditions associated with alcohol among patients with hypertension in Sweden
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Part of Journal of Building Engineering, 2025
Part of Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2025
Part of Behavioral Sciences, 2025
- DOI for Job Satisfaction and Optimal Experience in a Swedish Governmental Administration-A Mixed Methods Study
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Part of Metabolites, 2025
- DOI for MiMeJF: Application of Coupled Matrix and Tensor Factorization (CMTF) for Enhanced Microbiome-Metabolome Multi-Omic Analysis
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Mortality and its predictive factors in participants with asthma: a 26-year follow-up
Part of Respiratory Medicine, 2025
- DOI for Mortality and its predictive factors in participants with asthma: a 26-year follow-up
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Mortality in Severe Asthma - results from the NORDSTAR cohort.
Part of European Respiratory Journal, 2025
Part of Administrative Sciences, 2025
- DOI for Navigating Change: Experiences of Digitalisation Projects Within the Swedish Transport Administration
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Occupational Dust Exposure as a Risk Factor for Developing Lung Function Impairment: Erratum.
Part of Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2025
Occupational exposures to inorganic dust are associated with emphysema: the SCAPIS cohort.
Part of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, p. 437-443, 2025
Part of Frontiers in Public Health, 2025
- DOI for Organizational factors behind low sickness absence in Swedish municipalities-An explorative qualitative study
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Plasma proteins associated with cardiovascular disease in relation to lung function in SCAPIS.
Part of Respiratory Medicine, p. 108463, 2025
Postexercise Airway Responses by Spirometry and Oscillometry in Nonathlete and Athlete Adolescents
Part of Pediatric Pulmonology, 2025
Prediction pathway for severe asthma exacerbations: a Bayesian Network analysis.
Part of Chest, 2025
Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Persistent Airflow Limitation in the NOVELTY Cohort.
Part of Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2025
Part of Radiation Protection Dosimetry, p. 899-904, 2025
- DOI for Protracted exposure to 134Cs and 137Cs gives substantial contribution to long-term thyroid absorbed dose after nuclear power plant accidents
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Part of Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2025