Health Promot Int
December 2020
Increasingly life is lived online, yet little is known about the actual nature and extent of online content that people view due to the difficulty of recording real time exposure. This includes people's exposure to harmful commodity marketing. This study aimed to develop a methodology to assess the nature and extent of exposure to, and engagement with, unhealthy commodity marketing and other public health harms online, particularly children's exposure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDelays in diagnosis and treatment are regularly discussed as potential poor prognostic factors for adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients. We aimed to determine whether AYA cancer patients (15-24 years of age) in the South Island of New Zealand had longer times to diagnosis and treatment than pediatric (<15 years) and adult patients (>24 years) with the same diagnosis. A retrospective review of medical records was undertaken for 201 recently diagnosed sarcoma, Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) patients in the South Island.
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