Can anyone with an interest in the occupational health of firefighters (or other emergency service workers) recommend any papers regarding the health trajectories of these workers after they have retired from, or left, the service?
So far, the only papers on this sort of topic that I have been able to find are those on British civil servants (national government employees) eg, papers based on the 'Whitehall Studies' of Marmot and others; and ex-service personnell, eg Bergman.
While there is an extensive literature on firefighter morbidity and mortality, none of the papers seem to look specifically at the post-service part of their lives.
Bw
Chris Ide
plz visit
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Firefighter-Safety-at-Disaster-and-fireground
Gary,
Thank you very much indeed for sending me so much information.Unfortunately, it is not what I am seeking.
In between 1994 and 2005, I was Medical Adviser to Strathclyde Fire & Rescue Service in Scotland, UK.During this time, I published a number of papers on firefighter occupational health, and accumulated a cohort of about 1 500 firefighters, who retired either on grounds of ill-health, or because they completed maximum service.
These firefighters will now be between 56 and 94 years of age, assuming that they are all still alive.
My current project is seeking to link these individuals withtheir subsequent health data which has been collected by the Health Service as a result of attendance or admission to hospitals, prescriptions and death certificate data, to see what has happened to their health since retirement, and compare this to an age and sex matched control population.Thank you for your interest, I wish you every success in your own work.
Bw
Chris Ide
Thanks for all the information.
I will search and read the papers you published.
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