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Socio‐economic status, indoor and outdoor work, and malignant melanoma
Author(s) -
Cooke K. R.,
Skegg D. C. G.,
Fraser J.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/ijc.2910340110
Subject(s) - melanoma , incidence (geometry) , work (physics) , environmental health , occupational exposure , demography , scale (ratio) , medicine , geography , socioeconomics , gerontology , sociology , cartography , cancer research , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , engineering
Among New Zealand non‐Maori men, professional, technical, administrative and managerial workers had the highest incidence and mortality rates for malignant melanoma of the skin; labourers and workers in production and transport had the lowest rates. Reclassification of occupations, in terms of both socio‐economic status and a three‐step scale of outdoor exposure during work, suggested that differences between occupational groups were determined by differences in socio‐economic status. Outdoor work exposure seemed to have little effect on the risk of melanoma.