Physician sun protection counseling: Prevalence, correlates, and association with sun protection practices among US adolescents and their parents, 2004

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 172-177

  Bandi, Priti ^a   Cokkinides, Vilma E ^a   Weinstock, Martin A ^b   Ward, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Communication; Media; Parents; Physician Couseling; Prevention and control; School; Skin Neoplasms; Sun protection; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

SUNSCREEN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN CANCER; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CHILD; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNBURN; SUNSCREENING AGENTS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954819534     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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