학술논문
Healthy Worker Effect Phenomenon: Revisited with Emphasis on Statistical Methods - A Review.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*EMPLOYMENT
*HEALTH status indicators
*INDUSTRIAL hygiene
*MORTALITY
*STATISTICS
*MATHEMATICAL variables
*OCCUPATIONAL hazards
*DATA analysis
*ENVIRONMENTAL exposure
*RESEARCH bias
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ISSN
0973-2284
Abstract
Known since 1885 but studied systematically only in the past four decades, the healthy worker effect (HWE) is a special form of selection bias common to occupational cohort studies. The phenomenon has been under debate for many years with respect to its impact, conceptual approach (confounding, selection bias, or both), and ways to resolve or account for its effect. The effect is not uniform across age groups, gender, race, and types of occupations and nor is it constant over time. Hence, assessing HWE and accounting for it in statistical analyses is complicated and requires sophisticated methods. Here, we review the HWE, factors affecting it, and methods developed so far to deal with it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]