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Health costs of economic expansion: the case of manufacturing accident injuries.

Author(s) -

Ralph Catalano

Publication year - 1979

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.69.8.789

Subject(s) - metropolitan area , environmental health , occupational safety and health , demography , incidence (geometry) , work (physics) , injury prevention , association (psychology) , poison control , control (management) , medicine , geography , forensic engineering , gerontology , demographic economics , operations management , engineering , psychology , economics , sociology , mathematics , mechanical engineering , geometry , management , pathology , psychotherapist

The hypothesized relationship between economic expansion and accident injuries is tested using archival economic and accident data from the Los Angeles-Long Beach, California metropolitan area. The association is measured using cross-correlation techniques after variation shared with a comparison metropolitan area (Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove) is removed. Two tests of association are conducted. The first uses the raw accident rate of the comparison metropolitan area as a control variable while the second adjusts the control variable to reflect shared industrial sectors. Findings suggest that the incidence of disabling accidents increases in the month before and during the month that the manufacturing work force expands. The impact appears strongest during the month that new workers are added.

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