Document ID (ISN) | 109198 |
CIS number |
09-234 |
ISSN - Serial title |
0095-6562 - Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine |
Year |
2008 |
Convention or series no. |
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Author(s) |
Pizzi C., Evans S.A., De Stavola B.L., Evans A., Clemens F., dos Santos . Silva I. |
Title |
Lifestyle of UK commercial aircrews relative to air traffic controllers and the general population |
Bibliographic information |
Oct. 2008, Vol.79, No.10, p.964-974. Illus. 25 ref. |
Abstract |
A cohort of 17,990 commercial aircrews in the United Kingdom was identified through the Civil Aviation Authority records. Demographic, lifestyle, reproductive and medical characteristics of commercial aircrews were compared with those of air traffic controllers identified in a similar way as aircrews and estimates for the general population of the United Kingdom. Both aircrews and air traffic controllers differed considerably from the general population with, for instance, much lower prevalences of current smoking, obesity and hypertension but higher levels of regular physical exercise. Aircrews and air traffic controllers undergo a similar employment selection process and thus taking the latter as the reference population, in addition to the general population, will allow minimizing the "healthy worker effect" in future epidemiological studies. |
Descriptors (primary) |
United Kingdom; state of health; physical fitness; air traffic control; aircraft; air transport; work aptitude |
Descriptors (secondary) |
healthy worker effect; hypertension; smoking; epidemiology; comparative study; vocational selection; cohort study; medical examinations; frequency rates; obesity |
Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
Country / State or Province | United Kingdom |
Subject(s) |
Transport and communications
|
Broad subject area(s) |
Stress, psychosocial factors
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Browse category(ies) |
Air transportation
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