Re: Healthy Worker Effect

[MortGold@aol.com]

The "healthy worker" effect is, as indicated, based on the fact that the
worker population does not include the very young and the very old, mortality
and morbidity rates among whom are very much greater than those for the age
groups between (say) 18 and 62 which are representative of the vast majority
of individuals in the worker population.  Thus, comparisons of morbidity or
mortality rates of worker populations with those of the general public are
not valid UNLESS those rates are adjusted to recognize the differences in age
distributions (and hence age-related health effects) in the two populations.

Mort Goldman