Workers who are particularly susceptible to the effects of their occupational exposure, from the perspective of the healthy worker effect, soon leave the workplace. The result of this mobility, called survival bias, is that cross sectional studies based on the survivors underestimate the true risk of occupational exposures. Two questions are addressed in this empirical study of the "survival bi...

Studies of residents in communities with high endemic concentrations of arsenic in drinking water suggest a deleterious effect on the circulatory system; however, studies among workers with high occupational exposures generally have shown either no or weak associations. This discrepancy could be a result of the healthy worker effect, including the healthy hire component and the healthy worker s...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the association between labour market status and death by suicide with focus on admission with a psychiatric disorder. DESIGN Nested case-control study. Data from routine registers. SETTING Entire Danish population. PARTICIPANTS 9011 people aged 25-60 years who committed suicide during 1982-1997 and 180 220 matched controls. MAIN RESULTS In the general popula...

Introduction. The ”healthy worker effect” (HWE) is currently understood as organized (on the part of employer) and/or unorganized (self-selection on worker, due to functional capabilities and state health workers in unfavourable working conditions, one most critical problems when conducting epidemiological studies occupational pathology. Purpose objectives. Analysis problem safety, scientific m...