Research group Division for Epidemiology
The research area focuses on improved understanding of how stress-related illnesses and health problems arise and can be prevented in and outside of the workplace.
The Division for Epidemiology is the home to SLOSH – Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health – a nationally representative cohort study of the health consequences of psychosocial factors at work with 40,877 participants. Through extensive international collaboration, researchers at the Division are also able to use a number of large databases both in Sweden and in other countries to explore questions about working life and health.
The research focus mainly on longitudinal studies aiming to:
- explore associations between work organisation, work environment and health, e.g. self-rated health, sleep disturbances, hearing problems, cognitive disturbances, depression, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and premature death.
- study the causes and consequences of sickness absence, sickness presenteeism, and retirement.
- investigate how acquired behavioural patterns, personal choices, and the balance between work and private life affects the associations between stress in working life and health.
- study the health consequences of downsizing, organisational changes, and business cycle.
- investigate the role of sleep and restitution in the relationship between stress in working life and health outcome.
- study physiological mechanisms which mediate the association between stress and manifest disease, e.g. atherosclerosis and disturbances in hormonal regulation.
- evaluate workplace interventions aiming to improve the work environment, reduce harmful stress, as well as to promote health and productivity among the emplyees.
Members
Hui Xin WangSandra BlomqvistJaana HalonenRebecka HolmgrenRobin HögnäsConstanze LeineweberLinda Magnusson HansonAnna NybergParaskevi PeristeraLoretta PlattsKristiina RajaleidAuriba RazaLawrence SaccoAndreas SarlingHolendro Singh ChungkhamJohanna StengårdTöres TheorellMaria WijkanderTianwei Xuexternal
Combining informal caregiving and paid workImplications of telework during the COVID-19 pandemic for work-life balance, job quality and healthRisks, gains and trade-offs in the late careerSLOSHThe impact of organizational injustice on withdrawal from work and labor market exitThis is not part of my job! Longterm health consequences of illegitimate tasks in welfare workWorking to the older ageY-SLOSH