Studies of dermatologic fitness in applicants for medical specialty occupations
Meyer, J.; Linsel, K.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete 35(9): 556-558
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0049-8610 PMID: 2531504 Document Number: 343930
The considerable rate of professional hand eczema in medical personnel emphasizes the necessity of practicable methods for early diagnosis of risk of eczema. A dermatologically-oriented programme of examination and fitness criteria for applicants for what are known here as wet trades has been worked out with a view to helping combat occupational diseases in the GDR. Among other factors it was possible to reduce annual morbidity of occupational skin disease in county Gera.