Mortality in a Swedish rubber tire manufacturing plant: Occupational risks or an "unhealthy worker" effect?

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 617-623

  Wingren, Gun ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Circulatory diseases; Cohort; Mortality; Respiratory diseases; Rubber tire

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; RUBBER;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DUST; EMPLOYMENT; EPILEPSY; FUME; HEART DEATH; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE TIRE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RUBBER INDUSTRY; STANDARDIZATION; SWEDEN; VAPOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RUBBER; SWEDEN;

EID: 33746741066     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20328     Document Type: Article

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