Research presentation

Marina Heiden

Research presentation

Marina Heiden

Associate professor

Research subject: Occupational Health Sciences

Email: marina.heiden@hig.se
Telephone: +46 26 64 85 44

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Marina Heiden works at the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, and is mostly active in the program Cost-efficient measurement of physical load in the Forte Centre The Body at Work - From Problem to Potential. She is also interested in health-promoting and risk factors in working life, and factors of importance for returning to work after sick leave.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Cost-efficient modeling of physical workload
The aim of the project is to compare the cost-efficiency of methods for assessing physical load in working life. The project is partly funded by Forte.
Development of a risk assessment method for visual ergonomics
The project is funded by AFA Försäkring, and performed in collaboration with researchers at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University.
Women of working age living with long-term pain: well-being, work ability and return to work
A longitudinal survey among women in Gävleborg county.

Interventions to prevent musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace

As a Ph.D. student at Occupational Medicine, Umeå University, I studied relations between stress and pain. In 2006, I defended my thesis entitled "Psychophysiological reactions to experimental stress - relations to pain sensitivity, position sense and stress perception". Today, my research is focused more towards cost-efficient strategies for exposure assessment of physical work load in working life.