15761 IUPAC Gold Book - healthy worker effect 10.1351/goldbook.15761 15761 current 1 Epidemiological phenomenon observed initially in studies of occupational diseases: Workers usually exhibit lower overall disease and death rates than the general population, due to the fact that the old, severely ill, and disabled are ordinarily excluded from employment. Death rates in the general population may be inappropriate for comparison, if this effect is not taken into account. diseases https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15644 PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1234 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779071153) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15761/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15761/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15761/plain Citation: 'healthy worker effect' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.15761 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-24T03:06:49+00:00