Outdoor Workers and Sun Protection: Knowledge and Behaviour
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Expert paper 6: Outdoor workers and sports participants Outdoor Workers and Sports Participants – Sun Protection Challenges
The literature regarding sun protection strategies for outdoor workers and sports and recreation users is somewhat sparse, as is data regarding attitudes regarding skin cancer risk of these groups. Reports of intervention are relatively rare and offer mixed results (see for example, Glanz et al., 2007). Farmers have been the subject of multiple studies in the USA; showing improvement in both su...
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عنوان ژورنال: Construction Economics and Building
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2204-9029
DOI: 10.5130/ajceb.v2i2.2896