Put More "Bite" into Health Promotion: a campaign to revitalize health promotion in the Army Dental Care System. II. The cancer initiatives.
During the course of 1998, the Army Dental Care System launched Put More "Bite" into Health Promotion, a campaign to revitalize health promotion in the Army Dental Care System. In this paper, we discuss the content, rationale, and evidence base for one of five health promotion initiatives that are part of the campaign: lip, oral, and skin cancer screening and counseling.
Chisick
M C
MC
U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5422, USA.
Richter
P
P
Piotrowski
M J
MJ
D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008048:Lip Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D008885:Military Dentistry; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States