Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Health-related interpretation of human biomonitoring results – new and updated human biomonitoring guidance values from PARC and HBM4EU

During the first three years of the Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC), we derived health-based human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs) for 11 substances to enable the direct health-related interpretation of human biomonitoring (HBM) results. HBM-...

Beyond Enabling Perspectives: How Organizational Conditions Shape Intertwined Forms of Professional Agency in Health and Social Care

Abstract The need to deepen our understanding of how organizational conditions shape the enactment of professional agency in the context of rapidly changing health and social care organizations is growing. Professional agency is understood in this study as a temporally embedded,...

Using AI to support safety management – Analysing occupational safety data using machine learning within the framework of human factors

Organisations collect large amounts of safety data concerning safety events. However, many organisations are still in their infancy in this regard, especially when it comes to utilising large datasets containing textual safety data to support their safety management. Fast-develop...

Antecedents of Long‑Term Work Disability After Mental Health-Related Sickness Absence: The Role of Occupational Health Care Pathways

Abstract Purpose The relationship between specific occupational health care (OHC) pathways and subsequent work disability following an initial mental health-related sickness absence (SA) is poorly understood. This study aimed to predict long-term SA outcomes by modeling the timin...

The Incidence of Sensorineural Hearing Loss Diagnoses in People with and without Parkinson's Disease

Abstract Background Parkinson's disease (PD) and sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) are both prevalent conditions among older adults. Although increasing number of studies have investigated SNHL as a risk factor for PD, it is not well known how diagnosed PD affects the likelihood...