"Cancer - Educate to Prevent" - High-school teachers, the new promoters of cancer prevention education campaigns

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Barros, Ana ^a   Moreira, Luís ^b   Santos, Helena ^a   Ribeiro, Nuno ^a   Carvalho, Luís ^a   Santos Silva, Filipe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO PIAGET   (Portugal)

^c University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PREVENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH SCHOOL; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PERCEPTION; PILOT STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHER; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; TEACHING; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; BIOLOGY; FACULTY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EID: 84901217820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096672     Document Type: Article

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