Patterns of sun protection for young children: do we deliver the right sun-protection messages?
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The ABCs of sun protection for children.
Excessive sun exposure in childhood is a critical variable influencing skin cancer risk. Nurses must teach parents how to properly protect their children from excessive sun exposures by demystifying UV radiation and teaching proper sun-protection measures. Protecting children from excessive sun exposure, while not curtailing recreation, should be the goal of all nurses caring for children.
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BACKGROUND Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer globally. Lifetime risk is associated with childhood sun exposure. OBJECTIVE We sought to investigate whether skin cancer prevention programs have resulted in improvements in sun-exposure and sun-protection behavior among young children in tropical Australia. METHODS Two cohorts of 12-to 35-month-old children from Townsville, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Dermatology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0007-0963
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2012.10837.x