Childhood sun safety at different ages: relations between parental sun protection behavior towards their child and children’s own sun protection behavior
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-7382-0