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Healthy Worker Effect

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Definition: 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.  IM GEN only; coord NIM with disease /epidemiol (IM); no qualif; specify geog if pertinent    Other names Healthy Worker Effects; Effects, Healthy Worker; Effect, Healthy Worker

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