Mixed messages and a missed opportunity: Australian news media coverage of Clare Oliver's campaign against Solaria

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 189, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 371-374

  MacKenzie, Ross ^a   Imison, Michelle ^b   Chapman, Simon ^a   Holding, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; MELANOMA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; SOLARIUM; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBATHING; TELEVISION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 55449089490     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02081.x     Document Type: Review

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