Trends in cause specific mortality across occupations in Japanese men of working age during period of economic stagnation, 1980-2005: Retrospective cohort study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7851, 2012, Pages

  Wada, Koji ^a   Kondo, Naoki ^b   Gilmour, Stuart ^c   Ichida, Yukinobu ^d   Fujino, Yoshihisa ^e   Satoh, Toshihiko ^a   Shibuya, Kenji ^c  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPANESE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY; AGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; JAPAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 84859522031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e1191     Document Type: Article

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