Mortality and life expectancy of professional fire fighters in Hamburg, Germany: a cohort study 1950 – 2000
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Mortality and life expectancy of professional fire fighters in Hamburg, Germany: a cohort study 1950 – 2000
BACKGROUND The healthy worker effect may hide adverse health effects in hazardous jobs, especially those where physical fitness is required. Fire fighters may serve as a good example because they sometimes are severely exposed to hazardous substances while on the other hand their physical fitness and their strong health surveillance by far exceeds that of comparable persons from the general pop...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1476-069X
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069x-5-27