Years of potential life lost as the indicator of premature mortality in occupational medicine

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 40-44

  Yoshida, Katsumi ^a   Sugimori, Hiroki ^b   Yamada, Yoshihiro ^c   Izuno, Takashi ^d   Miyakawa, Michiko ^e   Tanaka, Chieko ^e   Takahashi, Eiko ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Mitsukoshi Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age adjusted mortality rate; Healthy worker effect; Occupational medicine; Premature mortality; Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0030970329     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931228     Document Type: Article

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