Occupational Skin Diseases

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• Personal Author:
  Lushniak, Boris D.
• Description:
  Occupational dermatology is the facet of dermatology that deals with skin diseases the cause or aggravation of which is related to some exposure in the workplace. By its nature, occupational dermatology is also related to occupational and preventive medicine. The ideal role of a medical practitioner involved in occupational dermatology is to diagnose and treat patients and to determine the cause of the occupational skin disease and make recommendations for its prevention. Making the diagnosis .and offering treatment, determining cause, and recommending preventive measures can all be difficult undertakings. Many references on occupational skin disorders are available. Occupational dermatology covers a. wide variety of skin diseases. The causes of occupational skin disorders can be grouped into the following general categories: 1. physical insult (friction; pressure, trauma, vibration, heat, cold, variations in humidity, ultraviolet/visible/infrared radiation, ionizing radiation, and electric current) 2. biologic causes (plants, arthropods, bacteria, rickettsiae, viruses, fungi, and parasites) 3. chemical insults (water, inorganic acids, alkalis, salts of heavy metals, aliphatic acids, aldehydes, alcohols, esters, hydrocarbons, solvents, metallo-organic compounds, lipids, aromatic and polycyclic compounds, resin monomers, and proteins) Because epidemiologic data show that contact dermatitis accounts for 90% to 95% of all occupational skin diseases this entity is emphasized here. Other occupational skin diseases that are discussed include contact urticaria, skin infections, and skin cancers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dermatitis Epidemiology Health Personnel Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Safety Skin Skin Diseases
• Keywords:
  Contact-dermatitis Dermatology Dermatosis Diseases Occupational-diseases Occupational-exposure Occupational-medicine Physicians Preventive-medicine Skin-diseases Skin-disorders Skin-infections

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• ISSN:
  0095-4543
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030526
• Citation:
  Prim Care 2000 Dec; 27(4):895-915
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Primary Care
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:80aa6b72f41f35a4648f21097273107422bceb388631d7cf4e562ef532b840c833b2b8346a3d4a1dfd3ee5724cb578adf834feb2ed8de9c4e615db001e06e0e1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191103/cdc_191103_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.27 MB ]