title: [Role and significance of information tools in occupational asthma].
abstract: Role of education in occupational asthma. Subjects' education, i.e. information and training in the specific topic, has a substantial role in several medical fields and is considered to be the challenge to reach the primary, secondary and tertiary preventive goals. In occupational medicine workers information and training is considered particularly relevant and it has been included in a recent governative law regarding prevention and health care at the workplace. The present short review deals with the role of education in occupational asthma, which at present appears the most frequently compensated occupational lung disease.
authors.affiliation: Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Clinica del Lavoro e della Riabilitazione, IRCCS, Centro Medico di Pavia, Scuola di Specializzazione in Allergologia e Immunologia Clinica, Università di Pavia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Moscato
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Catenacci
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Galdi
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*