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Scenario - You are a health psychologist working in a medical/educational setting. Specifically, you are the health psychologist for the university hospital and medical center. You are in beautiful, sunny, Southern California. Recently, the dermatologists at the university health center are referring an unusually high number of students to the oncology units for melanoma, the worst type of skin cancer that usually begins in a mole. Not only is the number of melanoma cases high, but students are coming in to see the dermatologists when the melanoma has already spread to the lymph nodes, and therefore chances for survival from this deadly disease decrease dramatically. You are asked to design an intervention that will promote skin cancer prevention techniques across the campus community.

Help - 'community' intervention - What is the main groups that I must target? It must be groups at various levels of awareness and interest in skin cancer. Also, how I can promote prevention at various stages? ( from prevention of skin cancer to early recognition of symptoms).
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The solution provides information and advise on the task (see above) of creating a population specific skin cancer intervention. Resources are listed.

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The community that is on focus here is a particular subpopulace of a university - the student body. The report shows that a number of students have been referred to the medical unut if the university and have received diagnosis of melanoma, a number of them related to moles, and are already advanced that the dermatologist find it too late to out in interventive treatment as the cancer has spread to their lymph nodes and have thus become deadly. From what tgis report is saying, it subjects the worst cases to students with moles. If we cross this with other leading causes of skin cancer following this insight from Skcin (2016) which says that almost all "skin cancers are caused by over-exposure to UV radition from the Sun and/or sunbeds," where all skin types can be damaged by such an exposure and where all damage done is permanent, irreversible andnincreases with each new exposure, we can deduce that the sub-population of students with moles as well as such related pigmentation features (i.e. an overabundance of freckles) as well as students ...

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