Skin disease case mix in the early 1920s: diagnoses prevalent at the time of the founding of the British Association of Dermatologists.

Skin disease case mix in the early 1920s: diagnoses prevalent at the time of the founding of the British Association of Dermatologists. Br J Dermatol. 2020 Aug 31;: Authors: Gawkrodger DJ, Hunter JAA Abstract Dermatology is a ceaselessly changing specialty, no more so than currently, so it is unsurprising that the case mix of skin diseases presenting to a dermatologist a century ago, when our association was founded, should be different from today. For one thing, the overall healthcare context has changed. Life expectancy in 1920 at birth for a man was 55.6 years, and for a woman 59.6 years.1 Causes of death had transitioned from the nineteenth century pattern of being overwhelmingly due to infectious disease, to a predominance of respiratory and cardiovascular disease, with contribution from cancer.2 Access to secondary care was variable and often patchy in the inter-war years, prior to the foundation of the National Health Service in 1948. PMID: 32866993 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Authors: Tags: Br J Dermatol Source Type: research