Prevention of Skin Cancer in the Hospital de Clínicas: What do health personnel know?
Abstract
Skin cancer is the most frequent malignancy in Uruguay as well
as worldwide, where a person dies every less than four days for this
cause.
The most effective prevention measure is to have photoprotective
habits, which is achieved through health education and preventive
campaigns.
This paper summarizes the results of the physical examination
performed on officials of the Hospital de Clínicas in the context of
the 2017 Skin Cancer Prevention Campaign and their habits and
knowledge of photoprotection.
The vast majority of individuals consider that they have enough
information on how to protect themselves from the sun, which
comes in 39% of television cases. Still, 41% of them are only protected
on special occasions such as trips and summer and only 3 of the
participants use adequate measures.
With respect to previous campaigns, 94% did not remember
another skin cancer prevention campaign and it was the first time
that 99% of the individuals attended, which highlights the need to
reinforce the planning and execution of campaigns and effective
measures for the promotion and prevention of skin cancer in the coming years in order to reduce the incidence of skin cancer that
continues to increase
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