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Mortality of workers hired during world war II
Author(s) -
Steenland Kyle
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.4700230515
Subject(s) - medicine , world war ii , first world war , military service , service worker , spanish civil war , military personnel , gerontology , environmental health , demography , demographic economics , labour economics , ancient history , law , political science , sociology , economics , history
There has been some suggestion that men first hired during World War II do not show the typical healthy worker effect and may have been more unhealthy than their counterparts who entered military service. We have studied 41,000 workers at six plants to determine whether men hired during World War II had higher mortality than men hired just before or after WWII. No evidence was found of any “unhealthy WWII worker” effect. © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.