Youth indoor tanning and skin cancer prevention lessons from tobacco control

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 188-194

  Seidenberg, Andrew B ^a   Mahalingam Dhingra, Aditya ^b   Weinstock, Martin A ^c,d   Sinclair, Craig ^e   Geller, Alan C ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CONTROL STRATEGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INDOOR TANNING; LEATHER INDUSTRY; MASS MEDIUM; SKIN CANCER; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SMOKING; SMOKING REGULATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MINOR (PERSON); NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PUBLIC HEALTH; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNBATHING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; MINORS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PUBLIC HEALTH; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNBATHING; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921260947     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: 18732607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.08.034     Document Type: Article

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