Occupational and Environmental Skin Disorders Epidemiology, Current Knowledge and Perspectives for Novel Therapies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ngatu, Nlandu Roger (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ikeda, Mitsunori (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Dermatology.; Pharmacology.; Allergy.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Allergology.

This book provides cutting-edge information on the epidemiology, etiology and pathophysiology of several prevalent occupational and environmental skin diseases (OSD/ESD), with a particular focus on skin health safety issues, risk factors, preventive measures and recent advances in the management of...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• PART I: SKIN IRRITANTS, SENSITIZERS AND CARCINOGENS
• Chapter 2 Skin Function and Occupational Cutaneous Hazards
• PART II ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL ECZEMATOUS SKIN DISORDERS
• Chapter 3 Atopic dermatitis
• Chapter 4 Occupational Contact
• Chapter 5 Quality of Work Environment and Frequency of Work-related Dermatitis in Dust-exposed African Informal Coltan Miners
• Chapter 6 Occupational Cement Dermatitis and Cement
• Chapter 7 Alternative Therapies for Eczematous Environmental and Occupational Skin Diseases and their anti-inflammatory mechanisms
• Chapter 8 Sacran: Novel Natural Sulfated Polysaccharide as Antiallergic Skincare Biomaterial for Atopic Dermatitis
• Chapter 9 Experimental Anti-Allergic and Immunomodulatory Effects of Vernonia amygdalina-derived Vernodalin and Plant Extracts
• Chapter 10 Clinical Anti-Allergic Effects of Vernonia amygdalina Leaf Extracts
• PART III FUNGAL, NEGLECTED SEASONAL, EPIDEMIC AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL KIN DISORDERS
• Chapter 11 Common Environmental Dermatomycoses
• Chapter 12 Sarcoptic Skin Disease (Scabies)
• Chapter 13 Frequency and Clinical Features of Sarcoptic Skin Disease in
• Congolese Schoolchildren
• Chapter 14 Paederus Dermatitis: Environmental Risk Factors, Clinical Features and Management
• Chapter 15 Overview on other Environmental Skin Disorders.