Lo studio della mortalità in coorti di lavoratori attraverso modelli per dati raggruppati

Abstract

In this paper several methods for the analysis of occupational mortality data are reviewed. The analysis of the occupational mortality by calculating mortality ratios is subject to a number of limitations: alternative approaches to such technique are presented. Particularly, model specification and the use of external controls as the general population are discussed. Moreover some properties of additive risk models are analyzed and a generalized family of risk models is proposed. As an example such models are applied to a cohort of industrial workers.