The study of prevalence and types of skin diseases among athlets in Mosul sport clubs

ABSTRACT
The research objectives is to determined the prevalence and types of skin diseases among athlets in Mosul sport clubs and to determined The ages , educational level and hygiene care of skin practiced by the athlets . skin diseases form a problem in front of training and competition and from this came the importance of the research .
The researchers put a hypotheses that there is a large number of skin diseases among athlets and there is little medical . we used community based survey and we conclude that skin diseases was very prevalent among athlets and there is clear relation ship between these diseases and the age and the educational level , the high percentage was in young ages with low educational level and also between the athlets with low skin hygiene .