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Whether you’re a parent, daycare center provider, construction worker, teenager, or health professional, YourSkinandSun.com will help you to learn about sun-earth relationships, UV radiation, the ozone hole, UV detection, UV index, the sun’s negative effects on the skin, skin cancer screening, and sun protection.
The information and resources at YourSkinAndSun.com can benefit just about anyone worldwide who spends time in the sun, particularly populations at risk—those who live at low latitudes or high altitudes, have fair skin, and are prone to photosensitivity reactions to UV. Even folks who live in areas such as Alaska but who plan to vacation in the tropics, at ski resorts, or anywhere the sun is sufficiently intense should be interested in learning and practicing sun protection. In addition, health care providers, teachers, childcare providers, recreation and swim center staff, forest rangers, and parents can learn how to provide instruction in sun safe behavior.
Justification
When I moved from foggy San Francisco to sunny San Jose in 1988, I started worrying about sun exposure and how it relates to skin cancer and premature aging. So I started reading everything I could find on the subject and started wearing sunscreen, a hat, and sun glasses.
In 1997 on a hot summer day, my step-daughter, then six, came home from daycare with blistered shoulders. I knew there was a great need for a sun safe program at her school and programs at other recreation centers. Also, many adults practice unprotected sun exposure. As a matter of fact, The Center for Disease Control estimates that 70% of American adults don’t protect themselves from the sun’s damaging rays.
Vision
I have a strong desire to help change social norms to decrease the incidence of skin cancer, particularly melanoma. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 1 million Americans will discover they have basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma-mild, usually benign forms of skin cancer. And it is estimated that in 2002, 53,600 Americans were told they had malignant melanoma, the more serious and often fatal form of skin cancer. In addition, 7,400 would be expected to die from melanoma.
Yet, “There is good news: skin cancer can be prevented. The challenge, however, lies in changing the attitudes and behaviors that increase a person’s risk of developing skin cancer.” (David Satcher, MD, PhD, Former Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General).
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