title: Occupational skin diseases.
abstract: Primary care physicians will likely see a wide variety of occupational skin diseases in their practices, including allergic contact dermatitis, irritant contact dermatitis, contact urticaria, a variety of infectious diseases, and skin cancers. The ideal role of a medical practitioner involved in occupational dermatology is not only to diagnose and treat patients, but also to determine the cause of the occupational skin disease and to make recommendations for its prevention. Making the diagnosis and offering treatment, determining the cause, and recommending measures can be difficult undertakings.
authors.affiliation: US Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Lushniak
mesh_terms: D017281:Cost of Illness; D009783:Dermatitis, Occupational / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D003880:Dermatology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D010819:Physician's Role; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods; D015980:Public Health Practice; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology