Different occupations require different communication skills or, to put it differently, language proficiency may be a determinant of occupational selection.
The ability to adapt to new information, including actively selecting work environments which better support personal and professional goals, may be an important determinant of occupational health and longevity within this field.
In fact, HLA phenotype is a significant determinant of occupational sensitisation to inhaled hapten of complex platinum salts and the strength of this association varies according to the intensity of exposure (Newman Taylor et al, 1999).
This paper considers the determinants of occupation structure in economies where individuals who differ in skills make occupational choices in response to monetary incentives.
In the first case, international experience supports the proposition that education has become the strongest determinant of individuals' occupational status and chances of success in adult life.
In fact, long working hours have been considered one of the critical determinants of health in occupational medicine, and karoshi (sudden death due to cardiovascular events resulting from working overtime) was first recognized in Japan [ 6].
The results are presented according to the categories that originated from analysis of personal health determinants, occupational determinants and social influences in the host country (figure 1) and its interactions between these categories (figure 2).
The study contributes to a very limited body of literature and expands our understanding of the size and determinants of the costs of occupational cancer.
