HEALTH CHARACTERISTICS BY LONGEST HELD OCCUPATION AND INDUSTRY OF EMPLOYMENT - UNITED-STATES, 1980

Occupational and industrial hazards are unevenly distributed in the wo rkplace. National estimates for selected health indices of persons age d 17 years and over in the civilian noninstitutionalized population ar e presented for categories of longest held occupation and industry of employment. These estimates were based on data collected by the Nation al Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in the 1980 National Health Int erview Survey (NHIS) and the Occupational Supplement, the first survey to collect data on longest held, in addition to current, occupation a nd industry of employment. Data on length of longest held job, limitat ion of activity, disability days, incidence of acute conditions, perso ns injured, hospitalizations, and utilization of medical and dental se rvices are presented. (C) 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.