| Document ID (ISN) | 102036 |
| CIS number |
03-1174 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0340-0131 - International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health |
| Year |
2003 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Lushniak B.D. |
| Title |
The importance of occupational skin diseases in the United States |
| Bibliographic information |
June 2003, Vol.76, No.5, p.325-330. Illus. 22 ref. |
| Abstract |
Occupational skin diseases and disorders (OSDs) are the most commonly reported non-trauma-related (acute or cumulative) category of occupational illnesses in the United States. This factor, along with their potential chronicity, their effect on an individual's occupational and non-occupational activities, and the fact that they are preventable, point out the public health importance of OSDs. It can be difficult to obtain accurate epidemiological data for OSDs in the United States, and all sources have their limitations. OSD cases that result in days away from work are important categories to study, since days away from work may be used as an indicator of the severity of a case. Descriptive epidemiology may be used to provide further information on these "more severe" cases, to determine, for example, high-risk industries, occupations, and exposures, and then to use this information to focus prevention strategies. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
USA; skin diseases; epidemiology; occupational diseases |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
non-occupational factors; sickness absenteeism; safety and health documentation; registers of occupational diseases; severity rates; occupation disease relation |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | USA |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Epidemiology
Skin diseases
|
