The Skin Cancer Prevention Framework: A Comprehensive Tool for Population-level Efforts in Skin Cancer
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The skin cancer prevention framework: a comprehensive tool for population-level efforts in skin cancer.
The Skin Cancer Prevention Team (SCPT) required a comprehensive approach for guiding its efforts in population-level skin cancer prevention. After identifying and reviewing several models, it concluded that an appropriate population-level model applicable to the Alberta context did not exist. Thus, the SCPT, under the Alberta Health Services - Cancer Prevention Program, developed and evaluated ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0008-4263,1920-7476
DOI: 10.1007/bf03405308