Background: Preventive and health promotion projects aim to induce healthy habits in children through education about sun exposure in order to protect against and reduce the incidence of skin cancer. Education about the prevention of skin cancer is most effective when it is taught as part of a health education curriculum.
Our program was named as "Sol, Amigo da Infância - Sun, Friend of Childhood". This program was established on January 2013 by SBD-RESP board. The program partner schools received materials to facilitate the classroom instruction, and the program also encouraged the implementation of structural measures (such
as planting trees) and individual measures (such as encouraging the use of hats, appropriated clothing, sunglasses and sunscreen).
The program is composed by flexible elements that can be used independently or as supplements to the curriculum of existing health promotion in school.
Aim: The program "Sun, Friend of Childhood" is a school health education and disease prevention project directed to instruct children and educators through activities in school that aim to encourage the adoption and maintenance of behaviours that ensure proper sun protection and the consequent prevention of skin cancer.
A total of 194,000 children and 800 teaching coordinators of public and private schools received lessons and activities about our Educational program on photoprotection between 2013 and 2014. HQ´s comics, DVD movie and teachers involvement have been showed effective to disseminate these informations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHuuXFdZCA
Book Sol amigo da infância: semeando uma nova cultura em fotoprot...
Here in Queensland where we have a very high incidence of melanoma, it is very important to educate children. Campaigns such as "slip, slap, slop" and "no hat no play" have been very effective over the years
Dear Roy M Kimble,
Our Campaign in Brazil was inspired in the great initiative of Sun Smart in Australia! We adapted to our reality and applied a popular Comic in Brazil to gain attention by children. We have more than 30,000 draws made by children. It was a grateful experience for us. Australia is a better example for this kind of children education. Please, download the file attached above named "sun friend of childhood". It is a book where the preface was made by SunSmart. We are so grateful.
I think this is a great idea because if we can change the prevailing view of healthy body linked to a having a nice suntan, we will probably decrease the beauty connection of sun exposure and thus potentially decrease skin cancer incidence.
There is no doubt that the best information of melanoma prevention and treatment is coming from Australia. Perhaps educating the children via educated parents can be an additional approach. Children usually behave by their instincts and most unwanted sun exposure occurs in beaches and play yards, where they are half naked but under surveillance of parents who can then implement and insist on sun protection measures.
Dear Professor M. Badawy Abdel-Naser,
Thank you so much for your contribution. Our Campaign involved the transmition Knowledge from children to their parents, too.
Your type of educational program on sunlight and skin cancer is not only important but essential. Our early work, in an experimental animal system, showed a direct connection between UVB radiation, immunosuppression and skin tumor outgrowth. We found this immunosuppression to be a function of the total dose of exposure and independent of dose-rate and dose-fractionation. Thus, extrapolating this find to humans would suggest that over a life-time of exposure, this concommitant immunosuppression aids and abets skin tumor development. Starting sun protection early in life is a good place to begin.
Sun has its own benefits. weightage has to be given for pro sun exposure and against
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