Naslov
Impact, challenges and perspectives of Euromelanoma, a pan-European campaign of skin cancer prevention

Autori
Forsea, AM ; Euromelanoma Working Group ; Šitum, Mirna ; del Marmol, V

Izvornik
JEADV. Journal of the European academy of dermatology and venereology (0926-9959) 27 (2013), 10; 1317-1319

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, stručni

Ključne riječi
Euromelanoma ; Screening ; Impact ; melanoma

Sažetak
Euromelanoma is a pan-European campaign for skin cancer prevention combining a free public screening action with an intense, mass-media- supported public education initiative.As a first step towards analysing this impact, we surveyed the national coordinators of Euromelanoma in the countries participating in the 2010 campaign, through written questionnaires that explored their opinion about the campaign’s effects on the public attitude towards skin cancer and on the dermatology profession, and about the perceived obstacles and perspectives of development for the campaign. Twenty-one of twenty-seven countries representatives answered the survey, reporting in total up to 260 000 screenees through 2010. The rate of population screened annually tended to vary inversely with the total country population (Pearson’s correlation coefficient r = -0.56, P < 0.005) and ranged between 0.006% in Switzerland and 0.0047% in Poland (European population data for 2010).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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