Diversity dermatology – Health priority

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The skin, according to its pigmentation, has particularities that it is important to know and take into account to improve the diagnosis, as well as the management of skin pathologies. In the same way, frizzy hair does not have the same specificities as straight or curly hair.

What are the specificities of black and mixed skin? © Getty Images/iStockphoto – Jay Yuno

At a time of globalization and the intensification of population movements, it is becoming essential to train doctors in the specificities of different populations.

What are the specificities of black and mixed skin ? How to enable better diagnosis of skin diseases ?

• Prof. Antoine Mahé, certified teacher of the University of Strasbourgchead of department, dermatologist at Hospital Center of the Civil Hospitals of Colmarchairman of the thematic group “ black skin » from the French Society of Dermatology. Co-author of the book Diversity Dermatologypublished by Elsevier Masson
• Pr Ousmane Faye, Professor of Dermatology at Faculty of Medicine and Odontostomatology of Bamako, in Mali, director of Dermatology Hospital of Bamako, Member of the National Academy of Medicine In France. Co-author of the book Diversity Dermatologypublished by Elsevier Masson.
• Report by Divine Bertout.

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