Overview
Focus on environmental and occupational factors in connection with common skin diseases
Offers optimal guidance on the management of challenging environmental dermatology-related diseases
Illustrates non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents for allergic and non-allergic eczematous diseases in detail
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Skin Irritants, Sensitizers and Carcinogens
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Environmental and Occupational Eczematous Skin Disorders
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Fungal, Neglected Seasonal, Epidemic and Other Environmental Skin Disorders
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About this book
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 these diseases. It also highlights recent discoveries and developments concerning novel therapeutic agents for inflammatory OSD, especially findings that are supported by clinical data and have the potential to transform conventional prophylactic and therapeutic approaches. For example, despite their increasing prevalence, the management of allergic skin diseases is sometimes challenging, mainly due to limited treatment choices. In several countries, steroids are the only treatment used. However, in cases of contraindications, adverse effects or unsatisfactory steroidal therapies, alternative treatments are indispensable. As such, an understanding of promising anti-allergic agents enhances allergy research and could eventually lead to novel alternative therapeutic and adjuvant remedies, which are of the utmost importance. This book offers a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students and practitioners in the field of public health in general, especially those working in environmental and occupational medicine, as well as physicians.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ngatu R.N., MD.PhD.
Associate Professor
Specialty: Occupational & Environmental Medicine, International Health.
Graduate School of Medicine, and Graduate School of Public Health.
International University of Health and Welfare (IUHW)
Chiba/Tokyo, Japan.
Professor
Specialty: Dermatology
Graduate School of Nursing & Health Sciences, and Wellness and Healthy Longevity center
University of Kochi, Kochi, Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Occupational and Environmental Skin Disorders
Book Subtitle: Epidemiology, Current Knowledge and Perspectives for Novel Therapies
Editors: Nlandu Roger Ngatu, Mitsunori Ikeda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8758-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8757-8Published: 27 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4231-8Published: 06 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8758-5Published: 07 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 168
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Dermatology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Allergology