Legally brown: Using ethnographic methods to understand sun protection attitudes and behaviours among young Australians 'i didn't mean to get burnt - It just happened!'

Health Education Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-52

  Potente, Sofia ^a   Coppa, Kay ^a   Williams, Ainslie ^b   Engels, Rob ^b  

^a CANCER RESEARCH DIVISION   (Australia)

^b Qualitative Research Vivid   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUNSCREEN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PEER GROUP; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKIN TUMOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUNBURN;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; PEER GROUP; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUNBURN; SUNSCREENING AGENTS;

EID: 79251523824     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyq066     Document Type: Article

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