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© 1982 Oxford University Press

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Respiratory Disease Mortality in Agricultural Workers in Eight Member Countries of the European Community

R F HELLER* and M C KELSON

* Department of Community Medicine St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK.
{dagger} Members of the Working Party were: Belgium: M Kornitzer, Y C Yeranault. Denmark: J Mosbech, H Mosbech. France: R Pariente, F Neukirch. Germany: D Borgers, H Huckaul. Ireland: G Dean, E Shelley. Italy: A Marinoni, G Casali, M Grassi. Netherlands: W M J van Duyne, J P Mackenbach. United Kingdom: W W Holland, R F Heller, M C Kelson, A Rowlerson, J Goldschmidt. COMMISSION OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES: M van der Venne.

Heller R F [Department of Community Medicine, St Thomas‘s Hospital Medical School, London], Kelson M C, on behalf of the EEC Working Party into the Epidemiology of Respiratory Diseases among Agricultural Workers, Respiratory disease mortality in Agricultural Workers in eight member countries of the European Community. Intenational Joumal of Epidemiology 1982. 11: 170–174.

A co-operative study by representatives of eight member countries of the EEC into the problem of respiratory disease among agricultural workers is reported. Form each country mortality data (routinely collected but often unpublished) were obtained for seven disease categories in the country as a whole, and separately where possible for urban and rural areas, and agricultural workers. The results indicate that comparable data can be collected from different countries despite variations in local methods of data collection and coding. There are large between-country differences in respiratory disease mortality rates, and data for agricultural workers in France and England and Wales suggest an excess of acute respiratory disease deaths (mainly pneumonia and influenza)among agricultural workers.

Revised 20 July 1981


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