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Healthy Worker Effect

The "Healthy Worker Effect" is a form of selection bias in occupational epidemiology characterized by the observation that employed populations tend to have lower overall morbidity and mortality rates compared to the general population, due to the inclusion of only those individuals healthy enough to be employed, thereby distorting risk estimates in cohort studies.

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938

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357

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A new approach to causal inference in mortality studies with a sustained exposure period—application to control of the healthy worker survivor effect

James M. Robins · Mathematical Modelling · 1986 · 2.5K citations

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Job Displacement and Mortality: An Analysis Using Administrative Data<sup>*</sup>

Daniel G. Sullivan, Till von Wachter · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2009 · 837 citations

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Standardized Mortality Ratios and the "Healthy Worker Effect": Scratching Beneath the Surface

Anthony J. McMichael · Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 1976 · 782 citations

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Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit of Influenza Vaccination of Healthy Working Adults

Carolyn B. Bridges, W. Thompson, Martin I. Meltzer et al. · JAMA · 2000 · 660 citations

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Mortality and cancer incidence following occupational radiation exposure: third analysis of the National Registry for Radiation Workers

C R Muirhead, J A O'Hagan, Richard Haylock et al. · British Journal of Cancer · 2009 · 416 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. EA
    Ellen A. Eisen

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    10 publications · 352 citations

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  2. SP
    Sally Picciotto

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    7 publications · 210 citations

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  3. DH
    Dick Heederik

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    7 publications · 359 citations

    7

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  4. RM
    Robert M. Park

    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, United States

    6 publications · 172 citations

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  5. KS
    Kyle Steenland

    Emory University, United States

    5 publications · 498 citations

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Institutions

357

  1. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

    Washington D.C., United States

    16 h-index

    41 publications

    2K citations

  2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    13 h-index

    32 publications

    2.2K citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    11 h-index

    25 publications

    4.7K citations

  4. Inserm

    Paris, France

    9 h-index

    24 publications

    844 citations

  5. Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire

    Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

    8 h-index

    31 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    8 h-index

    18 publications

    1.9K citations

  7. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    7 h-index

    22 publications

    506 citations

  8. Minnesota Department of Health

    Saint Paul, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    874 citations

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  1. Occupational and Environmental Medicine

    42 publications · 1.6K citations

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  2. American Journal of Industrial Medicine

    34 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. PubMed

    Repository · 29 publications · 1.7K citations

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  4. 14

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  5. American Journal of Epidemiology

    AJE · 11 publications · 565 citations

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