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Direct linkHatmaker, Grace – Journal of School Nursing, 2003
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now categorizes skin cancer as epidemic. Nearly 90% of these deadly cancers start from sun exposure during the childhood years. This makes sun exposure in school-age children a serious public health risk, also one that school nurses can address. Solar radiation is now classified as a "known…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Prevention, School Nurses, Public Health
