Quantifying the advantages and disadvantages of pre-placement genetic screening (2004)
Palmer, K.T., Poole, J., Rawbone, R.G., Coggon, D.
Background: Tests of genotype may enable workers at unusual risk of future ill-health to be identified. Using them to select for employment, however, entails gains and losses to employers and...
Quantifying the advantages and disadvantages of pre-placement genetic screening (2004)
Palmer, K.T., Poole, J., Rawbone, R.G., Coggon, D.
BACKGROUND: Tests of genotype may enable workers at unusual risk of future ill-health to be identified. Using them to select for employment, however, entails gains and losses to employers and...
Switching to low tar cigarettes: are the tar league tables relevant?
Representative samples of smokers of regular middle tar and regular low tar cigarettes responded to a questionnaire concerning their smoking habits and participated in a blind product test, returning...
Future impact of genetic screening in occupational and environmental medicine
New genetic technologies open up the possibility of predictive screening, both for individual genetic risk factors for susceptibility to workplace hazards and for late onset (both single gene and...
Rawbone, R G, Keeling, C A, Jenkins, A, Guz, A
A questionnaire relating to smoking habits, respirator symptoms, and health attitudes was administered to 10 498 secondary schoolchildren in 1975. The results reported in this paper indicate that...
Cigarette smoking among secondary schoolchildren 1975-79.
A questionnaire relating to smoking habits, respiratory symptoms, and health attitude was administered to schoolchildren aged between 11 and 17 throughout a defined geographical area in both 1975 and...