Preventing Melanoma... help with strategies please

[SamJB]

Hi,

I have a question regarding an assignment I am doing... I have asked my tutor but her answer confused me more...

Basically as part of my assignment for a "promoting health in the community" subject I have to come up with primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies (I subsequently have to explain their importance within the Australian context and why they suit the various developmental stages at most risk of developing the conditions (we all have been assigned different conditions) and we also have to define the illness, risk factors, barriers to strategies etc)... I'm not sure whether I am on the right track with my strategies (they might be more interventions)... So if possible I would like some feedback (I have tried google, textbook, journal articles etc already)

For primary prevention strategies I have come up with:

Education (maybe this is too broad to be a strategy though?)

Protection against UV light (this is the most important risk factor in Melanoma... but is this more a strategy or an intervention?)

Slip, Slop, Slap (this is an Australian campaign based around education leading to prevention)

The National Skin Cancer Campaign (similar to above more targeted to teenagers and again not sure whether strategy or intervention)

For secondary intervention

I know the priority is cancer screening but Im not sure whether "cancer screening" would be the strategy or whether a specific subtype of screening would be e.g. Melanoma monday in May (promotes self screening) or community skin check clinics

For tertiary

I actually have no ideas yet... everything I've looked up focuses on treatment but Im not sure whether I can use that in a nursing assignment... maybe community support group???

Any extra ideas would be appreciated as well but if someone could really help me to understand what the actual strategy would be and if I have one that would be hugely appreciated :)

Thank-you in advance

[SamJB]

Anyone? Please?

[Rob27, BSN, RN]

Education people on risk, especially young folks, seems to never work for whatever with sun risk. It's been a good 15 years into strong anti-smoking campaigns and higher taxes on the products, and it's still a problem.

I don't see this as any different. I tell the teens in my family who tan regularly about the dangers, I have showed them photos and there attitude is "Well I will deal with it when that time comes".

If you choose educations, just don't read over a list of "risk". I would, in some way, try to drive it home. Show them how easy it is to apply lotion or whatever vs how costly and difficult it is once you have this condition. Ask them if they like how pretty their skin is now, then show them some photos.

[illuminati88]

Frequent check ups with a dermatologist can be used as a secondary