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Asthma in the Workplace - Couverture souple

 
9781032043425: Asthma in the Workplace
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1032043423 ISBN 13 : 9781032043425
Editeur : CRC Press, 2021

Synopsis

Asthma can be caused and aggravated by occupational factors in working adults. Agents that are responsible for occupational asthma are either sensitizers or irritants. Prevention is important to reduce the impact of the disease. This new edition of Asthma in the Workplace focuses on recent developments that are reflected by an impressive addition to the scientific literature. This fifth edition retains key elements that have made the success of previous editions: worldwide contributors, variety of topics covered, presentation of key aspects using workplace scenarios and case histories. This new comprehensive edition is intended to be of interest for health professionals, researchers, students, practitioners and various professionals involved in the assessment and management of workers exposed to occupational factors that may cause or exacerbate asthma.

Key Features

  • Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of work-related asthma, including historical aspects, epidemiology and risk factors, mechanisms and genetics, other types of work-related asthma conditions and variants, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, occupational urticaria and dermatitis

  • Assessment of the worker and workplace along with management of the worker, prevention and medicolegal aspects

    • Detailed information about specific agents, including a variety of high-molecular-weight and low-molecular-weight agents

    • Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

    À propos de l'auteur

    Susan M. Tarlo, Professor of Medicine, University Health Network and St Michael's Hospital, Toronto; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Olivier Vandenplas, Professor of Medicine, Head Department of Chest Medicine, Centre hospitalier Universitaire UCL Namur, Université Catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium

    David I. Bernstein, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Jean-Luc Malo, Professor of Medicine (retired), Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal and Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

    Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

    Éditeur
    CRC Press
    Date d'édition
    2021
    Langue
    anglais
    ISBN 10 
    1032043423
    ISBN 13 
    9781032043425
    Reliure
    Broché
    Numéro d'édition
    5
    Nombre de pages
    360
    Éditeur
    Malo Jean-Luc, Bernstein David I., Tarlo Susan M., Vandenplas Olivier
    Coordonnées du fabricant
    non disponible
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