["The effect of healthy worker" in various areas of occupational medicine: the publications review].

The article considers "the effect of healthy worker" as a source of systematic errors that makes epidemiological studies in occupational medicine less reliable and this is a significant problem. It is very important to analyze the professions and work conditions under which the phenomenon of self-selection and artificial «health improvement» of working population is to be expected. The scientific publications from open databases and other sources, discussing effect of self-selection under various work conditions and in various professions were analyzed.