| Document ID (ISN) | 66815 |
| CIS number |
96-651 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0355-3140 - Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health |
| Year |
1994 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Kauppinen T.P. |
| Title |
Assessment of exposure in occupational epidemiology |
| Bibliographic information |
1994, Vol.20, Special issue, p.19-29. Illus. 83 ref. |
| Abstract |
Recent progress in assessing exposure in occupational epidemiology studies is reviewed. Traditional methods based on surrogate and qualitative measures of exposure are no longer sufficient for searching for new risks, quantifying risks, and learning about their mechanisms. Prospective studies, case-referent studies within cohorts, and community-based case-referent studies applying interviews of the subjects or confirming exposures from workplaces are designs favouring exposure assessment. Job-exposure matrices have proved useful, especially in analyses of large studies, provided that they are applied so that misclassification does not significantly bias the results. Misclassification of exposure should be regularly assessed and controlled in epidemiological studies. Good documentation of the information used and studies on methodological validity and reliability are needed to develop exposure assessment. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
epidemiology; health hazards; exposure evaluation |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
subjective assessment; anamnesis; occupation disease relation; classification; long-term study; mathematical models; hazard evaluation |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | Finland |
| Subject(s) |
Generalities
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Exposure evaluation
Epidemiology
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