Asthma in the Workplace
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Asthma in the Workplace

Asthma in the Workplace


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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

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Part I : Introduction 1. Definition and classification of asthma in the workplace 2. Historical aspects of occupational asthma 3. Disease occurrence and risk factors 4. Mechanisms, genetics, and pathophysiology Part II : Assessment 5. Assessment of the worker 6. Assessment of the workplace 7. Immunological and inflammatory assessments 8. Functional assessment Part III : Management 9. Management of the worker 10. Prevention 11A. Impairment and disability evaluations: I. Psychosocial, economic, and medicolegal aspects 11B. Impairment and disability evaluation: II. Various legislations Part IV : Specific agents causing immunological occupational asthma 12. Occupational asthma in the baking industry 13. Asthma and allergy to animals, fish and shellfish 14. Polyisocyanates and their prepolymers 15. Western red cedar and other wood dusts 16. Metals 17. Cleaning agents 18. Various high- and low-molecular weight agents Part V : Specific disease entities and variants 19. Irritant-induced asthma and reactive airways dysfunction syndrome 20. Asthma exacerbated at work 21. Eosinophilic bronchitis 22. Occupational rhinitis 23. Airway diseases due to organic dust exposure 24. Occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis and organic dust toxic syndrome 25. Chronic obstructive airway disease due to occupational exposure 26. Building-related illnesses and mold-related conditions 27. Occupational urticaria and allergic contact dermatitis

About the Author :
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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780367430092
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press
  • Height: 280 mm
  • No of Pages: 356
  • Width: 210 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0367430096
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1079 gr


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