Hand eczema in Copenhagen hairdressers - Prevalence and under-reporting to occupational registers

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 361-363

  Hansen, Henriette S ^a   Søsted, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hairdresser; Hand eczema; Healthy worker effect; Occupational disease register

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAIRDRESSER; HAND ECZEMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ECZEMA; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; DENMARK; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; FEMALE; HAIR PREPARATIONS; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES;

EID: 72149088463     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2009.01649.x     Document Type: Article

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