Absenteeism among survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Issue 3 (August 1975)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Meigs, J W; Blot, W J; Inoue, S; Meigs, C R
• Is Part Of: Occupational and environmental medicine. Volume 32:Issue 3(1975)
• Page Start: 193
• Page End: 202
• Publication Date: 1975-08
• Subjects: Medicine, Industrial -- Periodicals; Environmental health -- Periodicals; 616.980305
• DOI: 10.1136/oem.32.3.193
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1351-0711

Abstract

Abstract : Atomic bomb survivors who worked at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima during the years 1968-71 and held handbooks identifying them as survivors took significantly more days of both annual leave and sick leave than did matched and paired control subjects. These differences in leave-taking patterns are considered to be due to behavioural causes as they could not be attributed to radiation dose-response effects.