Mortality and occupation: theoretical problems and concrete illustrations
Bouvier-Colle, M.H.
Revue d'Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique 34(4-5): 269-279
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0398-7620 PMID: 3823520 Document Number: 285768
This article reviews the methods generally used when studying occupational mortality. First, the different schemes of collecting data are cited; secondly, all the indexes (PMR, SMR, standardisation by direct method, etc.) that can be employed in this kind of analysis are studied, and each of them is critically evaluated. Finally, in order to compare the advantages of SMR over the effects of direct standardisation, these two indexes are combined in a brief study of the most recent data in France concerning occupational mortality. In illustration, an analysis is made of the most common causes of male deaths in 1982, among farmers, engineers, artists, teachers and those in the liberal professions.