نتایج جستجو برای: healthy worker effect

تعداد نتایج: 1893647  

2015
Leif E. Peterson Tatiana Kovyrshina

Background. The healthy worker effect (HWE) is a source of bias in occupational studies of mortality among workers caused by use of comparative disease rates based on public data, which include mortality of unhealthy members of the public who are screened out of the workplace. For the US astronaut corp, the HWE is assumed to be strong due to the rigorous medical selection and surveillance. This...

Journal: :Occupational and environmental medicine 1996
H M Arrighi I Hertz-Picciotto

OBJECTIVE This investigation sought to examine whether methods proposed to control the healthy worker survivor effect would influence the shape or magnitude of the dose-response curve for respiratory cancer induced by arsenic. METHODS Results from an unadjusted analysis are compared with results obtained by applying four different methods for control of the healthy worker survivor effect to d...

Journal: :American journal of epidemiology 1999
C S Lea I Hertz-Picciotto A Andersen J Chang-Claude J H Olsen A C Pesatori L Teppo P Westerholm P D Winter P Boffetta

The aim of this study was to determine whether the healthy worker effect and its component parts operate similarly for women and men. A cohort of workers from 14 synthetic vitreous fiber factories in seven countries, employed for at least 1 year between 1933 and 1977 and followed up to the early 1990s, included 375 deaths and 53,608 person-years among females and 2,568 deaths and 210,073 person...

Journal: :Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2017

2015
Sadie Costello Sally Picciotto David H Rehkopf Ellen A Eisen

OBJECTIVES To examine gender and racial disparities in ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality related to metalworking fluid exposures and in the healthy worker survivor effect. METHODS A cohort of white and black men and women autoworkers in the USA was followed from 1941 to 1995 with quantitative exposure to respirable particulate matter from water-based metalworking fluids. Separate analys...

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