Overview
- Equips readers to diagnose and treat the skin diseases and conditions encountered in refugees and other migrants
- Contains a wealth of high-quality illustrative material
- Explains the circumstances that give rise to migration and their clinical relevance
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Roderick James Hay, BA, BM BCh, MRCP, DM, MA, MRCPath, FRCP, FRCPath, FMed Sci, is Emeritus Professor of Cutaneous Infection at Kings College London and Consultant Dermatologist at The London Bridge Hospital. He is also Emeritus Professor at Queens University Belfast. Dr. Hay is the former Chairman of The International Foundation for Dermatology, and was a member of the Board of the International League of Dermatology Societies from 2001-2015. He is a member (for Dermatology) of the Global Burden of Disease Project and is a past President of the British Association of Dermatologists, the British Society for Medical Mycology, and the European Confederation of Medical Mycology. He is past Editor of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology and is section editor ofActa Dermatovenereologica (Infection). Dr. Hay is the recipient of many awards and honors.
Professor Bernard Naafs is consultant dermatologist for the Foundation Global Dermatology; visiting Professor at the Regional Dermatology Training Centre (RDTC), Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Tumaini University, Moshi, Tanzania; Invited Professor at the Instituto Lauro de Souza Lima (ILSL), Bauru, S.P., Brazil; visiting professor Department of Dermatology Ayder Referral Hospital University of Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia. He retired as Director of the Institute for Dermatology and Venereology “Polderma” Emmeloord/Steenwijk, the Netherlands. He has been Senior Consultant in Tropical Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology, Leiden University Medical Centre, the Netherlands; and Senior Lecturer in Dermatovenereology at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Other previous appointments include Consultant Dermatologist, IJsselmeerziekenhuizen,Emmeloord/Lelystad, the Netherlands; Head of OPD Dermatology, Dijkzigt Hospital, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Head of Leprosy Control, Ministry of Health, Harare, Zimbabwe; Acting Head of Allergy and Immunodermatology, Department of Dermatovenereology, Binnengasthuis (later Academic Medical Centre), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Clinical Research Physician at the All Africa Leprosy and Rehabilitation Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He received many rewards, among which the Eykman medal and was rewarded Knight of the Dutch Lion by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Skin Disorders in Migrants
Editors: Aldo Morrone, Roderick Hay, Bernard Naafs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37476-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37475-4Published: 10 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37478-5Published: 10 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37476-1Published: 09 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 245
Number of Illustrations: 130 illustrations in colour
Topics: Dermatology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, Nursing Management, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry