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Recognizing Latinos’ Range of Skin Pigment and Phototypes to Enhance Skin Cancer Prevention
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Summary Latinos in the United States may have the mistaken assumption that their natural pigmentation protects them from developing skin cancer that, effectively, serves as a barrier to Latinos receiving education in primary and secondary prevention of skin cancer. Latino adults of Mexican or Puerto Rican heritage attending community health fairs in the greater Chicago area responded to a culturally informed and sensitive measure for sunburn and tan, which was previously adapted to capture skin irritation with tenderness from the sun occurring in darker skin types (n=350). By self-reported responses and spectrophotometry assessment of constitutive pigmentation, adapted Fitzpatrick skin types (FST) ranged from skin type I to IV in the Mexican-American participants and from II to V in the Puerto Rican participants. The objectively measured proportion of adapted FST II skin type was greater than commonly perceived and demonstrated that many Latinos do indeed have sun sensitive skin. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Skin Neoplasms
Skin type
Light
Puerto rican
Skin Pigmentation
Dermatology
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Article
Sensitive skin
030207 dermatology & venereal diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Sunburn
Skin pigment
integumentary system
business.industry
Hispanic or Latino
medicine.disease
Skin irritation
Oncology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Skin Cancer Prevention
Female
Skin cancer
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d2891a7f6add9e44474d9e30f28cda73