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Healthy Worker Effect

Known as: Healthy Worker Effects, Effects, Healthy Worker, effect healthy workers 
Phenomenon of workers' usually exhibiting overall death rates lower than those of the general population due to the fact that the severely ill and… 
National Institutes of Health

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2014
2014
Genetic susceptibility in the workplace: a scientific and ethical challenge
In this issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine , Mehta et al 1 describe the potential for SERPINA1 genetic variants to… 
2014
2014
0112 Components of the Healthy Worker Effect with Quantification for Different Referent Comparisons
Objectives The healthy worker effect (HWE) is widely known to bias standardised risk estimates from occupational cohort studies… 
Review
2010
Review
2010
Does exposure to coal dust prevent or cause lung cancer?
Research published in this journal and elsewhere has demonstrated an increased risk of pneumoconiosis and more recently chronic… 
2009
2009
Cancer mortality among French nuclear contract workers.
BACKGROUND Nuclear workers from French contracting companies have received higher doses than workers from Electricité de France… 
2002
2002
Healthy worker effect
Dear Sir Whilst I appreciate the concerns that Barrie Skelcher may have with regard to the healthy worker effect (HWE), may I… 
1999
1999
Is there a healthy worker effect for cancer incidence among women in Sweden?
BACKGROUND Our aim was to evaluate whether there is a healthy worker effect (HWE) for cancer incidence among women. HWE is a bias… 
1998
1998
Characteristics of the healthy worker effect: a comparison of male and female occupational cohorts.
The healthy worker effect (HWE) poses a serious methodological problem to investigators of occupational cohorts in that it may… 
1990
1990
The sick person effect.
1990
1990
The Healthy Worker Effect: The Need to Reevaluate a Broad Spectrum of Occupational Risks
There is evidence that the practice of standardizing the mortality experience of occupational groups to that of the general… 
1989
1989
[Healthy worker effect on Japanese industry workers: a commentary from the viewpoint of industrial health management].
Healthy worker effect (HWE), which can be described as a lower death rate within a work force when compared to the general… 
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