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International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(4):710-715; doi:10.1093/ije/dym272
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Cohort Profile: The Hospital das Clínicas Cohort Study, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ricardo Jose Reis1, Poliana de Freitas La Rocca1, Lucca Basile2, Albert Navarro and Miguel Martín2,*

1 GRAAL, Serviço de Atenção à Saúde do Trabalhador (SAST), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
2 GRAAL, Unitat de Bioestadística. Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.

* Corresponding author. GRAAL, Unitat de Bioestadistica, Fac. Medicina, Campus UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallés 08193, Spain. E-mail: gaton2001@yahoo.es

Accepted 10 December 2007

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   How did the study come about?
 
This article presents the Hospital das Clínicas da UFMG Cohort (HC UFMG cohort), a study carried out in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. After a review of the specialized literature, we believe that it represents the only stable cohort of workers in Latin America.

Hospitals are appropriate settings where worker cohorts can be followed, their numerous occupational hazards and complex types of job, and hence a great variability of activities, admit the possibility of selecting various groups exposed to different environment risks.1

Like the Whitehall Study2,3 which enrolled civil servants in a well-designed longitudinal study, workers in public hospitals tend to have stable contracts, so that long-term follow-up is possible and effects due to hazard exposures may be observed and evaluated according to related risk factors.

Also, like the ‘closed population’ of the Framingham Heart Study,4 the hospital population has a homogeneous structure and definite risk factors, the set of possible confounding . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Hospital das Clínicas
SAST characteristics

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   Who is in the sample?
 

   How often have they been followed-up?
 

   What has been measured?
 

   What is attrition like?
 

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Population
SAST demand
Diagnosis
Sickness leave episodes

   What are the main strengths and weaknesses?
 

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