Secondary individual prevention of occupational skin diseases in health care workers, cleaners and kitchen employees: Aims, experiences and descriptive results

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 477-484

  Weisshaar, Elke ^a   Radulescu, Magdalena ^a   Soder, Stefanie ^a   Apfelbacher, Christian J ^a   Bock, Michael ^a   Grundmann, Jens Uwe ^a   Albrecht, Ursel ^b   Diepgen, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Accident Prevention and Insurance Association for Health Care Workers (BGW)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contact dermatitis; Hand eczema; Health education; Occupational skin disease; Secondary prevention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOLOGY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAND ECZEMA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SELF CONCEPT; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN CARE; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN PROTECTION;

ADULT; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GERMANY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 34247897177     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-006-0154-z     Document Type: Article

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