Open AccessEstimates of the proportion of bladder cancers attributable to occupation.
Author(s) -
Paolo Víneis,
Lorenzo Simonato
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.2174
Subject(s) - referent , inclusion (mineral) , statistics , demography , estimation , medicine , econometrics , mathematics , psychology , economics , social psychology , sociology , linguistics , management , philosophy
In order to estimate the proportion of bladder cancers attributable to occupation in different countries, three criteria were defined, each with a different degree of strictness, for the inclusion of job titles or industrial activities in the estimates. Such criteria were applied to the available case-referent studies, the range for the less severe criterion estimates being 0-19% and that of the strictest being 1-19%. The variability was greater among the studies than among the criteria of inclusion of occupations; therefore the study design and time- and place-specificity of exposures play an important role in the magnitude of such estimates.