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The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(4):340; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl112
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Inequalities in health: do occupational risks matter?

Giuseppe Costa1 and Angelo D'errico1

1 Department of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Correspondence: Giuseppe Costa, e-mail: giuseppe.costa@epi.piemonte.it

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In the 1908–1917 Italian Statistics on occupational mortality, the highest proportional mortality for accidents and violence included: falls among bricklayers, crushing among railwaymen, drowning for fishermen, explosions and asphyxiation in miners, burns in firemen, violence from animals among coachmen, frostbite among soldiers, lightning strikes in shepherds, electrocution in blacksmiths, sunstroke and snakebites for farmers, cuts for butchers.1 At . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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