Luiz Brusaca
Assistant Professor
About the researcher
Luiz Brusaca is a physiotherapist with a PhD in Physical Therapy. His research focuses on understanding how physical behaviors at work affect health and work-related outcomes. During his PhD, he studied office workers with obesity, combining technical measurements of physical behaviors with intervention research. He is particularly interested in the interplay between physical and psychosocial factors in the workplace and how these contribute to musculoskeletal disorders and sickness absence. In addition, he has interest in clinimetrics, the science of developing and validating instruments for measuring health-related constructs, and in applying these methods to develop, refine, or evaluate existing tools to improve their quality.
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Articles
Scholarly articles, refereed
Brusaca, L., Barbieri, D., Holtermann, A., Gupta, N. & Mathiassen, S. (2025). Exposure Variation Analysis (EVA): Past Applications, Present Use, and Future Challenges - A Narrative Review. Taylor & Francis, 10.1080/24725838.2025.2573776 [More information]
Skovlund, S., Wester, C., Kyriakidis, S., Brusaca, L., Andersen, L., Sundstrup, E. & Rasmussen, C. (2025). Occupational physical behaviors and knee pain among eldercare workers: A prospective accelerometer study. NOROSH, 10.5271/sjweh.4260 [More information]
Conference papers
Lohne, F., Brusaca, L., Holtermann, A. & Gupta, N. (2025). Describing complex compositions of co-occurring ergonomic work exposures. [More information]
Brusaca, L., Barbieri, D., Holtermann, A., Gupta, N. & Mathiassen, S. (2025). Exposure Variation Analysis (EVA) in Ergonomics and Health: A Review of Applications, Methods, and Future Directions. [More information]
Gupta, N., Brusaca, L., Lohne, F., Sørensen, O. & Holtermann, A. (2025). From isolated physical and psychosocial work exposures to understanding their co-dependency and co-occurrence in time. [More information]
Brusaca, L., Lohne, F., Sørensen, O., Holtermann, A. & Gupta, N. (2025). Moving beyond single exposure: a new perspective on combined co-occurring ergonomic exposures. [More information]
Frost, A., Søgaard, K., Forsman, M., Andersen, L., Holtermann, A., Brusaca, L. & Gupta, N. (2025). Occupational arm movements and risk of prospective neck-shoulder pain: An evaluation of a novel assessment method. [More information]
Januario, L., Brusaca, L., Ytterhölm, L., Mathiassen, S., Bergström, G. & Hallman, D. (2025). To which extent do eldercare workers born in and outside Sweden comply with EU-OSHA recommendations for physical activity at work. [More information]
Brusaca, L., Mathiassen, S., Gupta, N., Oliveira, A. & Hallman, D. (2025). To which extent does the sampling strategy influence the accuracy of group differences in 24-hour physical behavior compositions?. [More information]
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