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Staff photo Gunilla B Dahlgren

Gunilla B Dahlgren

I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of public health and clinical medicine, and affiliated to the Department of community medicine and rehabilitation.

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Affiliation
Affiliated as doctoral student at Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine Section: Section of Sustainable Health, A5/D
Location
6B, 3tr, Norrlands universitetssjukhus Umeå universitet, 901 85 Umeå
Affiliation
Affiliated as doctoral student at Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation Section: Physiotherapy
Location
-, Biologihuset Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

My research project is about hand-intensive work with a focus on risk assessment. Are women and men risk assessed equally? An observational method is used with estimates of perceived effort for exposure of hand activity and force. In addition, corresponding technical measurements are used for wrist velocity and muscle activity. Risk assessment is essential in implementing systematic work environment management and medical check-ups such as hand-intensive work. If the quality of the risk assessment is low, the risk may be under- or overestimated. The measure can be adjusted and more adequate if the quality is high. This may contribute to reduced work-related musculoskeletal ill health and sustainable working life for women and men. This knowledge can be valuable for researchers, clinicians in the occupational health service, employers, and workers.

My work experience is as a registered physiotherapist in musculoskeletal and orthopedic disorders and as an ergonomist in occupational health. I have specialist competencies in orthopedics and ergonomics. My employment is as an ergonomist at Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Norrland University Hospital. There, I assess occupational diseases and work exposure relatedness, teach at Umeå University, and network, educate, and support ergonomists in northern Sweden.

Bioengineering, MDPI 2023, Vol. 10, (7)
Dahlgren, Gunilla; Liv, Per; Öhberg, Fredrik; et al.
Applied Ergonomics, Elsevier 2023, Vol. 112
Eliasson, Kristina; Lewis, Charlotte; Hellman, Therese; et al.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, MDPI 2022, Vol. 19, (24)
Dahlgren, Gunilla; Liv, Per; Öhberg, Fredrik; et al.
BMC Health Services Research, BioMed Central (BMC) 2022, Vol. 22, (1)
Eliasson, Kristina; Fjellman-Wiklund, Anncristine; Dahlgren, Gunilla; et al.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, MDPI 2021, Vol. 18, (4)
Eliasson, Kristina; Dahlgren, Gunilla; Hellman, Therese; et al.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, MDPI 2020, Vol. 17, (17)
Eliasson, Kristina; Palm, Peter; Nordander, Catarina; et al.
PLOS ONE, Public library science 2017, Vol. 12, (12)
Aboagye, Emmanuel; Hagberg, Jan; Axén, Iben; et al.
Gait & Posture, Elsevier 2010, Vol. 32, (3) : 386-90
Dahlgren, Gunilla; Carlsson, Daniel; Moorhead, Anne; et al.
Nordisk fysioterapi, Vol. 6 : 134-143
Dahlgren, Gunilla; Hjalmarsson, Ulla; Lundin-Olsson, Lillemor

Research projects

1 January 2022 until 31 December 2024