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Publication Date: 1998
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Communicating to Farmers about Skin Cancer: The Behavior Adaptation Model.
Parrott, Roxanne; Monahan, Jennifer; Ainsworth, Stuart; Steiner, Carol
Human Communication Research, v24 n3 p386-409 Mar 1998
States health campaign messages designed to encourage behavior adaptation have greater likelihood of success than campaigns promoting avoidance of at-risk behaviors that cannot be avoided. Tests a model of health risk behavior using four different behaviors in a communication campaign aimed at reducing farmers' risk for skin cancer--questions farmers about skin cancer prevention, detection behaviors, attitudes. (PA)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cancer, Farmers, Health Education, Health Promotion, Models, Occupational Diseases, Risk
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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