 Bengt B. Arnetz, MD, PhD, MPH, MScEpi Based on my broad training in public health, organizational health and occupational and environmental medicine, I am engaged in three main areas of research, services and clinical work. Bengt Arnetz has a special interest in preventing stress-related disorders and optimizing work performance and health among first responder. He is currently directing a funded project aimed at improving the understanding of long-term performance and health effects from everyday, low-level stressors facing different first responder groups. He is also involved in improving virtual training aimed at strengthening first responders’ stress resiliency and performance under critical incident circumstances. 2: Wireless technologies and health Results from the Health Effects from Mobile Phones –the HEMP study -, the largest study to date concerning possible non-cancer effects from mobile phone use, found that radiofrequency emitted from mobile phones was associated with worse deep sleep, more headaches, but also improved learning and reaction time. Participants in the study were compared when they were exposed to real radiofrequency versus sham. Neither the participant, nor the research personnel knew the true exposure status in these experiments (sham vs real radiofrequency exposure). The HEMP study strongly suggests that mobile phone use is associated with specific changes in the areas of the brain responsible for activating and coordinating the stress system. 3. Sustained performance The third area for research concerns sustained performance. Together with researchers at Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, we are initiating a pilot study regarding psychosocial, biological and physical predictors of sustained health and performance among performing arts and athletic students at Wayne State University. We are also engaged in other studies concerning determinants of sustained health and performance, critical for public health as well as organizational well-being. Health and innovation: individual and organizational determinants Wireless technologies and health: impact in neurocognition, hormones, and sleep Sustained performance; biological, physical and organizational determinants
Wiholm C, Arnetz BB. Stress management and musculoskeletal disorders in knowledge workers: The possible mediating effects of stress hormones. Advances in Physiotherapy 2006;8:5-14. Hasson D, Arnetz BB, Theorell T, Anderberg UM. Predictors of self-rated health: a 12-month prospective study of IT and media workers. Population Health Metr. 2006 Jul 31:4:8. Sporrong SK, Hoglund AT, Arnetz B. Measuring moral distress in pharmacy and clinical practice. Nurse Ethics 2006;13:416-427. Branth S, Ronquist G, Stridsberg M, Hambraeus L, Kindgren E, Olsson R, Carlander D, Arnetz B. Development of abdominal fat and incipient metabolic syndrome in young healthy men exposed to long-term stress. Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Disease. 2006, In press. Arnetz BB. Stress- why managers should care. In, Arnetz BB, Ekman R (Eds.), Stress in Health and Disease. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2006, pp 91-121. ISBN-13 978-3-527-31221-4. Anderz$)A(&n I, Arnetz BB., The impact of a progressive survey-based workplace intervention program on employee health, biological stress markers, and organizational productivity. Journal of Occupational and environmental Medicine 2005;47:671-682. Arnetz BB., Subjective indicators as a gauge for improving organizational well-being. An attempt to apply the cognitive activation theory to organizations. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2005;30:1022-1026. Willis K, Brown CR, Sahlin I, Svensson B, Arnetz BB, Arnetz J., Why do nurses at a university hospital want to quit their job? J of Nursing Management 2005;13:329-337. Kälvemark S, H?glund A, Hansson M, Westerholm P, Arnetz BB., Living with conflicts-ethical dilemmas and moral distress in the health care system. Social Science & Medicin 2004;58:1075-1084. Jansson von Vult$)A(&e P, Arnetz BB., The impact of management programs on physicians' work environment and health: a prospective, controlled study comparing different interventions. Journal of Health Organization and Management 2004;18:25-37. Jansson von Vult$)A(&e P, Axelsson R, Arnetz BB., Individual and organizational well-being of female physicians. An assessment of three different management programs. Medscape General Medicine, Jan 21,6(1), 2004. (peer-reviewed electronic medical journal). Hasson D, Arnetz BB, Jelveus L, Edelstam BL., A randomized clinical trial of the treatment effects of massage compared to relaxation tape recordings on diffuse long-term pain. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2004;73:17-24. Halford C, Anderz$)A(&n I, Arnetz BB., Endocrine measures of stress and self-rated health: a longitudinal study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2003;55:317-320. Georgellis A, Lindel?f B, Lundin A, Arnetz BB, Hiller L., Multiple chemical sensitivity in male painters; a controlled provocation study. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 2003;206:531-538. Arnetz BB., Sj?gren B, Ryd$)A(&hn B, Meisel R., Early workplace intervention for employees with musculoskeletal-related absenteeism. A prospective controlled intervention study. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2003;45:499-506. Arnetz BB, Blomkvist V. Leadership, mental health, and organizational efficacy in health care organizations. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 2007;76:242-248. Svensen E, Arnetz BB, Ursin H, Eriksen HR. Health complaints and satisfied with the job? A cross-sectional study on work environment, job satisfaction and subjective health complaints. J Occup Environ Med. 2007;49:568-573. Bergman D, Arnettz B, Wahlström R, Sandahl C. Effects of dialogue groups on physiciansä work environment. Journal of Health Organization and Management. 2007;21:27-38. Hansson AS, Arnetz BB, Anderzen I. Risk-factors for stress-related absence among health care employees: A biopsychosocial perspective. Associations between self-rated health, working conditions and biological stress hormones. Italian Journal of Public health, 2006;3:53-61. Development of abdominal fat and incipient metabolic syndrome in young healthy men exposed to long-term stress. Branth S, Ronquist G, Stridsberg M, Hambraeus L, Kindgren E, Olsson R, Carlander D, Arnetz B. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 2006; Jun 27 (Epub ahead of print) Wiholm C, Arnetz BB. Stress management and musculoskeletal disorders in knowledge workers: The possible mediating effects of stress hormones. Advances in Physiotherapy. 2006;8:5-14. Blessman J, Spupski J, Jamil M, Bassett D, Wabeke R, Arnetz BB. Barrier to at-home preparedness in public health employees: implications for disaster preparedness training. J Occup Environ Med. 2007;49:318-326. Arnetz BB, Fjellner B. Stress responsiveness in patients with psoriasis. Br J Dermatol. 2007;156:338. Wallin L, Ewald U, Wikblad K, Scott-Findlay S, Arnetz BB. Understanding work contextual factors: A short-cut to evidence-based practice? Worldviews Evid Based Nursing. 2006;3:153-164.
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(1)The Swedish Work Environment Research Fund. RALF?s funding for occupational and environmental research was transferred to two new organizations in 2003 ((4) FAS and VINNOVA, respectively). All three entities are national, highly competitive, peer-reviewed research foundations, funding the majority of Swedish occupational and environmental health research. (6) Mobile Manufacturers Forum, Brussels, Belgium. |