Health related selection and death rates in the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority workforce.

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Follow up data on 37,355 employees of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) for the period 1946-79 were analysed to investigate the extent to which selection for work on the basis of health affected subsequent death rates. Causes of death were grouped into two broad categories for analysis: all cancers and all other causes of death. Evidence for an effect of selection of healthy individuals into the workforce was sought primarily by examining standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) ...

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Authors: Carpenter, L; Beral, V; Fraser, P; Booth, M

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: British journal of industrial medicine
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 248-258
• Publication date: 1990-04-01
• ISSN: 0007-1072
• Language: English
• Keywords: Healthy Worker Effect; Nuclear Energy; Great Britain; Power Plants; Cohort Studies; Social Class; Aged; Neoplasms; Occupational Diseases; Cause of Death; Adult; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Female; Personnel Selection; Age Factors; Selection Bias