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Occupational Epidemiology

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Occupational epidemiology has the same main goal as the broad field of epidemiology: to identify the causes of disease in a population in order to intervene to remove them. Occupational epidemiology is an exposure-oriented discipline; it is thus the systematic study of illnesses and injuries related to the workplace environment (Checkoway et al. 2004).

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This work was partially supported by the Italian Association for Cancer Research and the Special Project Oncology, Compagnia San Paolo. We thank Francesco Barone Adesi for useful comments.

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    Merletti, F., Mirabelli, D., Richiardi, L. (2014). Occupational Epidemiology. In: Ahrens, W., Pigeot, I. (eds) Handbook of Epidemiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09834-0_24

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