Table THORS03

Work-related skin disease: estimated number of cases of reported by dermatologists to EPIDERM and by occupational physicians to OPRA by country(a) and diagnostic category, 2004-2006

Country	Diagnostic category	Dermatologists & occupational physicians(p)		Dermatologists (EPIDERM)(p)		Occupational physicians (OPRA)(b)(p)
		Dermatologists & occupational physicians(p)		Dermatologists (EPIDERM)(p)		Occupational physicians (OPRA)(b)(p)
		Annual average estimated cases(c) 2004-2006	% of GB total	Annual average estimated cases(c) 2004-2006	% of GB total	Annual average estimated cases(c) 2004-2006	% of GB total
England	Contact Dermatitis	1939	82	1465	84	474	79
	Contact urticaria	102	81	80	81	22	82
	Folliculitis /acne	8	68	8	66	1	100
	Infective skin disease	43	91	26	99	17	81
	Mechanical skin disease	39	90	32	88	7	100
	Nail conditions	10	71	6	59	4	100
	Skin neoplasia	571	95	571	95	-	100
	Other dermatoses	99	85	41	89	59	83
	Total diagnoses	2811	85	2228	86	584	80
	Total individuals(d)	2778	85	2199	86	579	80
Wales	Contact Dermatitis	154	7	114	7	39	7
	Contact urticaria	15	12	15	15	-	1
	Folliculitis /acne	4	32	4	34	-	-
	Infective skin disease	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Mechanical skin disease	4	10	4	12	-	-
	Nail conditions	4	29	4	41	-	-
	Skin neoplasia	16	3	16	3	-	-
	Other dermatoses	5	4	5	10	-	-
	Total diagnoses	202	6	163	6	40	5
	Total individuals(d)	198	6	159	6	40	5
Scotland	Contact Dermatitis	258	11	170	10	89	15
	Contact urticaria	8	7	4	4	4	16
	Folliculitis /acne	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Infective skin disease	4	9	-	1	4	19
	Mechanical skin disease	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Nail conditions	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Skin neoplasia	16	3	16	3	-	-
	Other dermatoses	12	11	-	1	12	17
	Total diagnoses	299	9	190	7	109	15
	Total individuals(d)	297	9	188	7	109	15

Notes:

(a) A small proportion of cases do not have their country recorded: percentages are calculated from those cases for whom country is recorded and may not sum to 100 due to rounding.
(b) Comparisons based on OPRA reports are likely to be misleading because workers in some occupations are much more likely to have access to occupational physicians than those in others.
(c) Some physicians report on a sample basis, for one month in each year. Estimated totals for these are calculated by multiplying the actual number of cases reported by 12.
(d) Individuals can have more than one diagnosis.
"-" means zero or number rounds to zero.
(p) Provisional.