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
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Part of Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 2026
- DOI for Academic burnout and its mental health correlates among veterinary nursing students in Ghana: A cross-sectional study
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Aerosol deposition in the lung as a biomarker in asthma and chronic obstruction
Part of Respiratory Research, 2026
- DOI for Aerosol deposition in the lung as a biomarker in asthma and chronic obstruction
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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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Part of Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, p. 1947-1970, 2026
- DOI for Allergic Rhinitis and Its Impact on Asthma (ARIA)-EAACI Guidelines-2024-2025 Revision: Part II-Guidelines on Oral and Ocular Treatments
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Part of Environment International, 2026
- DOI for An exploratory study of environmental and nutritional determinants of early-stage clonal hematopoiesis in the elderly
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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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Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19: a case-crossover cohort study
Part of BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2026
- DOI for Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19: a case-crossover cohort study
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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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Part of BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2026
- DOI for Association of respiratory health with occupational exposures in the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) cohort: a multinational longitudinal study
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Associations between Volatile Organic Compounds in Student Dormitories and Dry Air Sensation
Part of ACS ES&T Air, p. 1123-1130, 2026
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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 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 2026
- DOI for Clinical factors associated with severely reduced health status in patients with COPD and comorbid depression/anxiety: The Swedish PRAXIS study
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Dampness and mould over 20 years and new onset of respiratory symptoms, asthma and rhinitis
Part of Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2026
- DOI for Dampness and mould over 20 years and new onset of respiratory symptoms, asthma and rhinitis
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Part of International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2026
- DOI for Development and evaluation of wrist- and thigh-worn accelerometer algorithms using self-training machine learning models for classification of activity type and posture: towards device placement-agnostic methods in the ProPASS consortium
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Part of Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing, p. 917-9250, 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
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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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Part of Social Sciences, 2026
- DOI for Enhancing Communication, Goal Setting and Accountability in Active Labour Market Programmes: Experiences from a Pilot Study
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Environmental pollutants and adrenal steroids biosynthesis in elderly
Part of Science of the Total Environment, p. 181021-181021, 2026
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Part of Journal of Public Health Research, p. 1-12, 2026
- DOI for Exploring caseworkers' experiences of SMILE: Facilitating sustainable employment for people with complex needs
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Part of Work, p. 1167-1180, 2026
- DOI for First-generation immigrants' experiences of entering and remaining in the Swedish labour market in a sustainable way: A qualitative study
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Part of Gait & Posture, 2026
- DOI for Free-living sit-to-stand angular velocity derived from thigh-worn accelerometry slows during pregnancy, but is not associated with binary self-reported discomfort prevalence
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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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Part of PLOS ONE, 2026
- DOI for Is asymmetric upper trapezius muscle activation during work associated with neck pain?: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis
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Part of SH@W Safety and Health at Work, p. 223-230, 2026
- DOI for Job Strain Profiles in Pharmacy Workforce: Evidence from the Job Demand, Control, and Support Model in Ghana
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Part of eClinicalMedicine, 2026
- DOI for Long COVID and risk of incident cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study using the Multimorbidity Integrated Registry Across Care Levels in Stockholm (MIRACLE-S) cohort
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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 Respiratory Medicine, 2026
- DOI for Lower lung function and respiratory symptoms are associated with reduced accelerometer-measured physical activity in middle-aged adults
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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
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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 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
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The role of the nasal microbiome in linking ozone pollution to allergic rhinitis in children
Part of Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2026
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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 One Health Outlook, 2026
- DOI for Zoonotic disease knowledge, attitudes, and livestock biosecurity practices among community members in Ada East District, Ghana: a concurrent mixed-methods study
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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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