Health literacy: a new perspective of cancer prevention and control / 中华预防医学杂志
Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine
; (12): 2-5, 2020.
Article
in Zh
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ABSTRACT
In the past decade, the incidence and mortality of malignant tumors in China have been growing as a serious public health problem. Health literacy is closely related to the individual cancer risk awareness, early cancer symptom recognition, cancer screening behavior, treatment compliance, disease self-management ability and outcome. It also has an important impact on the occurrence, development and outcome of cancer and plays an important role in the tertiary cancer prevention. This issue focuses on the consciousness of cancer prevention, early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment, as well as the demand of and access to the cancer prevention and treatment knowledge, and could provide reference for cancer prevention and control in urban residents.
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Type of study:
Screening_studies
Language:
Zh
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine
Year:
2020
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Article