Health Care

Healthy Worker Effect

Phenomenon of workers' usually exhibiting overall death rates lower than those of the general population due to the fact that the severely ill and disabled are ordinarily excluded from employment.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Phenomenon of workers' usually exhibiting overall death rates lower than those of the general population due to the fact that the severely ill and disabled are ordinarily excluded from employment.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Effect, Healthy Worker
  • Effects, Healthy Worker
  • Healthy Worker Effects

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Indexing Annotation

usually NIM; coordinate with disease /epidemiol

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History Note

90

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Tree Numbers

  1. N05.715w.350.350.375w
  2. N06.850w.490.734.750w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Healthy Worker Effect. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015989. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015989
  2. Healthy Worker Effect. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_user_bias
  3. Healthy Worker Effect. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1592347