Mortality by Occupation, Industry, and Cause of Death: 24 Reporting States (1984-1988)
 

DHHS (NIOSH) PUBLICATION
NO. 97-114 JUNE 1997

Acknowledgements
 

This report was prepared by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The authors thank the following personnel for their support of the Occupation and Industry Mortality Program and for their review and comments on the report: Todd M. Frazier (retired), John P. Sestito, and Nina Lalich of the NIOSH Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies (DSHEFS); and Gilbert W. Beebe (retired) and Aaron E. Blair of the NCI Division of Cancer Etiology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics Program.

The authors are also grateful to the following NCHS personnel: John E. Patterson (retired) for his support of the Program; Ronald F. Chamblee and Marshall C. Evans (retired) for directing the resources to collect and process the data; Glenn A. Flinchum (retired) for providing technical expertise; Lacola Washington (retired) for providing training in occupation and industry coding; Charles Royer for providing the data tapes; and the Registration Methods Branch for consulting with State vital statistics offices regarding collection of the death certificate data.

We gratefully acknowledge the work of the following reviewers: Nancy Stout and Robert Mullan, NIOSH; Richard Monson, Harvard School of Public Health; Gene D. Therriault, State of New York Department of Health; Robert Dubrow, Yale University.

In addition, the authors wish to thank the following NIOSH personnel: William E. Crouse (retired) for providing technical expertise; Lois L. Schuster (formerly of NIOSH) for providing training in occupation and industry coding; and Robert Dubrow (formerly of NIOSH), Steven Spaeth, Steven Adams, and Martin Peterson for providing the methodology and programming of the statistical procedures. Jane Weber edited the document and Susan Kaelin produced the camera-ready copy.

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