Trends in indoor tanning among us high school students, 2009-2013

JAMA Dermatology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 448-450

  Guy, Gery P ^a   Berkowitz, Zahava ^a   Jones, Sherry Everett ^b   Holman, Dawn M ^a   Garnett, Erin ^c   Watson, Meg ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; SUNBATHING; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STUDENTS; SUNBATHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928243940     PISSN: 21686068     EISSN: 21686084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2014.4677     Document Type: Letter

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