Asthma in the Workplace

5. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-04342-5
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 923 g

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

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tarlo, Susan M.

Vandenplas, Olivier

Bernstein, David I.

Malo, Jean-Luc

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pneumologie, Atmung, Asthma
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Umweltmedizin, Arbeitsmedizin, Tropenmedizin, Sportmedizin Arbeitsmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Immunologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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