Skip to search formSkip to main contentSkip to account menu

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

Papers overview

Semantic Scholar uses AI to extract papers important to this topic.
Review
2017
Review
2017
Healthy Worker Effect Phenomenon: Revisited with Emphasis on Statistical Methods – A Review
Known since 1885 but studied systematically only in the past four decades, the healthy worker effect (HWE) is a special form of… 
Review
2014
Review
2014
The health impacts of semiconductor production: an epidemiologic review
Abstract Background: Despite concerns over the harmful health effects of semiconductor production, epidemiological studies have… 
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
The healthy worker effect in cancer incidence studies.
Use of the general population as a reference might cause serious underestimation of the risk of cancer in working populations… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Healthy worker effect phenomenon
  • Divyang H. Shah
  • Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental…
  • 2009
  • Corpus ID: 43768741
The Healthy Worker Effect (HWE) phenomenon has been under debate since some years. Some epidemiologists regard HWE as an ordinary… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
The healthy worker effect in asthma: work may cause asthma, but asthma may also influence work.
Despite the increasing attention to the relationship between asthma and work exposures, occupational asthma remains… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Characteristics of the healthy worker effect.
The healthy worker effect (HWE), which can mask mortality excesses resulting from occupational exposures, poses a methodological… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
A Technique to Re-Assess Epidemiologic Evidence in Light of the Healthy Worker Effect: The Case of Firefighting and Heart Disease
  • B. Choi
  • Journal of Occupational and Environmental…
  • 2000
  • Corpus ID: 36873733
The healthy worker effect (HWE) is a bias that is believed to have strongly affected the validity of previous cohort mortality… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
A review of the healthy worker effect in occupational epidemiology.
This review article aims to anatomize sources of the healthy worker effect (HWE) and to summarize advantages and limitations of… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Definition, sources, magnitude, effect modifiers, and strategies of reduction of the healthy worker effect.
  • B. C. Choi
  • Journal of Occupational Medicine
  • 1992
  • Corpus ID: 33015740
This article summarizes, compares, and contrasts the definition, sources, magnitude, effect modifiers, and strategies of… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Observations on the healthy worker effect.
  • R. Monson
  • Journal of Occupational Medicine
  • 1986
  • Corpus ID: 20681208
Follow-up mortality data from ten groups of employed persons are compared to the mortality rates of the United States general… 
By clicking accept or continuing to use the site, you agree to the terms outlined in our Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab), Terms of Service (opens in a new tab), and Dataset License (opens in a new tab)