Occupational Health
IMM projects in this area
Chemical and physical exposure, and health effects
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Sustainable work environment for recycling with a focus on metals (GreenMetalwaste)
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Occupational air pollution during pregnancy and health effects in children
- Occupational exposure to chemicals and breast cancer
- Cancer in firefighters
- Pooled analysis of European case-control studies on lung cancer - SYNERGY
- Occupational exposure to particles and cardiovascular disease
- Mesoamerican nephropathy – a devastating epidemic
- Toxic gases in ocean freight containers
- Exposure limit setting for the work environment
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Exposure to nanocellulose at work and health effects – NanoCellRisk
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A sustainable new working life – trends, health effects and governance
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Genetic syndromes – prevalence, risk factors, comorbidities, mortality
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Skin absorption of metals - barrier properties, kinetics, and mixed exposure
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Mechanisms behind Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and chronic bronchitis
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The Nordic Expert Group for Criteria Documentation of Health Risks from Chemicals (NEG)
Ergonomics, and physiological factors
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A method for full work day measurements of postures and movements of head, neck, back and upper arms
- Six observational methods for assessment of biomechanical exposures of repetitive work
- The association between childhood IQ and mortality and morbidity among Swedish men and women
- Determinants of reduced work ability
- Load variation, sedentariness and health among professional computer workers
- Visual strain and symptoms from the eyes and neck: temporal relationships assessed by epidemiological methods
- Network for visual ergonomists
Organisational och social work environment
- A gender perspective on sick-leave among youth; obstacles and resources for return-to-work as experienced by employees and managers
- A problem-solving intervention in the primary care – PROSA
- A problem-solving intervention to enhance return to work among people on sick leave due to common mental disorders: Effects on short-term sick leave, psychosocial factors and balance in everyday life
- A problem-solving intervention involving employees at risk of developing common mental disorders and their managers - PRIME
- Coordination of return-to-work among employees on sick leave due to common mental disorders, with focus on barriers, facilitators and ethical aspects – CORE
- Supporting schools with the prevention of mental ill health at the workplace: a randomized controlled trial evaluating implementation strategies effectiveness
- Understanding implementation mechanisms: a randomized controlled trial in schools aimed at testing the effectiveness of implementation strategies and their mechanisms of change
- Sickness presenteeism, health and productivity (SHOP)
- Multilevel Interventions to Promote Mental Health in SMEs and Public Workplaces, H-WORK
- SPA or Stress prevention at work (prevention of stress-related mental ill-health in the workplace)
- Corona And Manual Professions - CAMP
- Return to work/improving work ability among employees with stress or common mental disorders
- Managers and leadership
- Bullying and harassment in academic settings
Psychosocial factors
- Sleep quality and sickness absence among individuals with low-back or neck-shoulder pain
- HRV and sleep quality exposure to stressors
- Sleep quality in patients with work-related psychological disorders
- Occupational rehabilitation within municipalities and county councils
- Cognitive ability, socioeconomic position, psychosocial factors at work, and unemployment as risk factors for alcohol related morbidity and mortality
- Cognitive ability and psychiatric disease as determinants of life style behaviours, family life, social achievements, later illness, mortality, and early retirement.
- Health examinations by occupational health services - goals, realization and results
- Bullying in the academia and industry
- What characterizes rehabilitation that benefits return to work
Stress-related mental health - prevention in the workplace (SPA project)
Occupational health economics
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Work environment economics: To evaluate the economic effects of OSH interventions in the workplace
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Employees' preferences for physical activity as a strategy for managing low back pain
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Multilevel Interventions to Promote Mental Health in SMEs and Public Workplaces, H-WORK
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SPA or Stress prevention at work (prevention of stress-related mental ill-health in the workplace)