Do public media campaigns designed to increase skin cancer awareness result in increased skin excision rates?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 751-754

  Del Mar, Christopher B ^a   Green, Adèle C ^b   Battistutta, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PATHOLOGY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN SURGERY; SUMMER;

AUSTRALIA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MELANOMA; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SEASONS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031470889     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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