This review article aims to anatomize sources of the healthy worker effect (HWE) and to summarize advantages and limitations of several approaches frequently proposed to eliminate the HWE. Although the HWE is frequently addressed in the context of selection bias, our review suggests that the selection of occupational cohorts with advantageous health status would preferably be addressed as a sou...

from April, 2009 to March, 2011 in China Maoti Wei, Zhong qiang Yan, Chunrong Wang, Wei Liu, Wuchun Cao Department of Epidemiology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China. Tianjin Key Laboratory for Prevention and control of Occupational and Environmental Hazard, Department of Epidemiology, Logistic University of CPAPF, Tianjin, China. Department of Clinical Microbio...

National Institute of Occupational Health, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [N. R. J., H. W., U. V.]; Institute of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark [B. A. N.]; Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, The Danish Cancer Society, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [A. O., A. T.]; and Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aalborg Hospital and Aarhus University Hospital, and Department o...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 2 Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 3 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 4 Department of Public Health, Universi...

1Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA; 2Dept of Epidemiology, Mel Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, USA; 3Dept of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; 4Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 5Dept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupat...

Authors’ affiliations: 1. Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 2. Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 3. Child and Family Research institute, Children’s and Women’s Health Center, Department of Paediatrics and Department of Health Car...

1Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Occupational Environmental Research Center, Rafsanjan Medical School, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Mohsen Rezaeian, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Occupational Environmental Research Center, Rafsanjan Medical School, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, IR Iran. Tel: +9...

1. Snoep JD, Morabia A, Hernandez-Diaz S, Hernan MA, Vandenbroucke JP. A structural approach to Berkson’s fallacy: and a guide to a history of opinions about it. Int J Epidemiol 2014;43:515–21. 2. Berkson J. Limitations of the application of fourfold table analysis to hospital data. Biometrics Bull 1946;2:47–53. Reprinted Int J Epidemiol 2014;43:511–15. 3. Rothman KJ, Greenland S, Lash TL. Vali...

Affiliations: Public Health England Field Epidemiology Service, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, UK. Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario de la Princesa (IISP), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Scientific and Methodological Consultant, Sociedad Española de Neu...