Re: Healthy Worker Effect

["Robert M. Loesch" <loesch@spok.eh.doe.gov>]

At 09:36 AM 3/21/96 -0600, Jim Muckerheide wrote:

>
>Consider for radiation specifically:  Many studies with internal controls
>confirm no such effect exists. See eg, the Nuclear Shipyard Worker Study
>(NSWS), the best worker study in the history of the planet re dosimetry and
>confounding factors and the size of the population (publication suppressed;
>now at least ref'd in UNSCEAR 94). The non-nuclear workers SMR vs aged
>adjusted general population is 1.00 (+- 0.03). 
>

I'm familiar with the NSWS study but not with the Jim's comment that the
publication has been suppressed.  Could someone enlighten me as to what he
is referring?

Bob Loesch


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