The concept of “healthy worker effect” must be addressed as a source of confounding bias. Looking at all employees of a manufacturing facility for example, would not include the bias introduced by exclusion of unhealthy workers before employment and that the study of the active workers in as health workers would not be necessarily applicable to that of the entire population

Li Y; Sung FC

The concept of “healthy worker effect” must be addressed as a source of confounding bias. Looking at all employees of a manufacturing facility for example, would not include the bias introduced by exclusion of unhealthy workers before employment and that the study of the active workers in as health workers would not be necessarily applicable to that of the entire population

Li Y, Sung FC1999A review of the healthy worker effect in occupational epidemiology. Occup Med (Lond)

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No abstract is available for this paper. It was published in A review of the healthy worker effect in occupational epidemiology. Occup Med (Lond) in 1999 by Li Y and colleagues.

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