When Work is Related to Disease, What Establishes Evidence for a Causal Relation?

Establishing a causal relationship between factors at work and disease is difficult for occupational physicians and researchers. This paper seeks to provide arguments for the judgement of evidence of causality in observational studies that relate work factors to disease. I derived criteria for the j...

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Main Author: Jos Verbeek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-06-01
Series:Safety and Health at Work
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791112320052