Behavioral and community interventions to prevent skin cancer: What works?

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 356-360

  Glanz, Karen ^a   Halpern, Allan C ^b   Saraiya, Mona ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUNSCREEN;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MELANOMA; NOTE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SMOKING CESSATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 33645106087     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.142.3.356     Document Type: Note

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