Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
İÇİNDEKİLERCONTENTS5 Preface 5 Summary 7 I. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY AND PREVIOUS FINDINGS 7 1. Historical review of ideas on health selection 8 2 Problem of health selection in earlier mortality studies 8 2.1. Health-based selection 11 2.2. Methodological factors 11 2.3 Additional problems in the study of health selection 12 II. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 13 III. HYPOTHESES 14 IV MATERIAL 14 1. Study design and criteria for the definition of the study population 14 2 Empirical study population 15 V. METHODS 15 1. Source of information 17 2. Exposure 20 3. Confounders and modifiers 23 4. Comparison groups 24 5 Methods of analysis 25 6. Significance testing 25 VI. OCCUPATIONAL MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY 25 1. Mortality 33 2. Disability 36 3. Morbidity 47 4. Combined results for mortality, disability, and morbidity 48 5. Turnover 50 VII. SELECTION 50 1 Social selection 51 2 Health selection 55 3 Chain of selection and life cycle 58 VIII. DISCUSSION 58 1. Validity of the study 61 2 Concluding remarks 64 IX. FOLLOW-UP OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY 64 1. Objective of the follow-up 64 2 Material and methods 65 3 Mortality 69 4. Disability 69 5. Chronic diseases 70 6. Discussion 70 7 Concluding remarks 71 References 76 Appendix  |
