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Education-to-job mismatch and the risk of work injury

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between education-to-job mismatch and work injury. METHODS: Cross-sectional data from the 2003 and 2005 Canadian Community Health Surveys (n=63,462) were used to examine the relationship between having an educational level that is incongruent with occupational skills requirements and the risk of sustaining a work injury requiring medical attention or a work-related repetitive movement injury (RMI). The …

Authors

Premji S; Smith PM

Journal

Injury Prevention, Vol. 19, No. 2,

Publisher

BMJ

Publication Date

April 2013

DOI

10.1136/injuryprev-2011-040314

ISSN

1353-8047