Mortality of UK electricity generation and transmission workers, 1973-2002

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 541-548

  Nichols, Linda ^a   Sorahan, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohort mortality study; Electricity supply industry

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ELECTRICITY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASBESTOSIS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; POWER PLANTS; WALES;

EID: 28044458083     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqi157     Document Type: Article

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