Skin cancer risk perceptions: a comparison across ethnicity, age, education, gender, and income.
Background: Studies of noncutaneous and cutaneous malignancies support the hypothesis that poor risk-perception status contributes to health disparity.Objective: We evaluated skin cancer (SC) risk perceptions across race and other demographic markers using the Health Information National Trends Surv...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 771 - 780 |
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Elsevier B.V.
May2012
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