Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Cancer Council Australia, Sydney, NSW;
Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
Public Health Res Pract. 2022 Mar 10;32(1):31452117. doi: 10.17061/phrp31452117.
This year, 2021, marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic Slip! Slop! Slap! campaign which launched Australia's status as a global leader in skin cancer prevention. Since the campaign first aired in the summer of 1980-81, notable successes have been achieved, with melanoma rates declining in younger age groups. While skin cancer prevention is rightly considered a triumph of Australian public health, challenges remain. Australia still has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, with about 2000 deaths per year from the disease. Skin cancer also presents the highest cost burden to the health system of any cancer type. Despite this, government investment at the national level is lacking. It is more difficult than ever to collect valuable representative national data on population skin cancer prevention behaviours to underpin and evaluate programs, as the methodology used previously has become unfeasible. There has not been a national skin cancer prevention mass-media campaign for over a decade, indicating complacency from policy makers. State and territory governments could also do more to implement evidence-based policies aimed at protecting children from ultraviolet radiation. This paper sets out Australia's skin cancer prevention landscape in 2021, and makes the case for a renewed focus from government on sun protection to safeguard the significant gains made over four decades and to protect future generations from an almost entirely preventable cancer.
今年，2021 年，标志着标志性的 Slip！Slop！Slap！运动 40 周年，该运动使澳大利亚成为皮肤癌预防领域的全球领导者。自该运动于 1980-81 年夏季首次播出以来，已经取得了显著的成功，年轻人群中的黑色素瘤发病率有所下降。尽管皮肤癌预防被认为是澳大利亚公共卫生的一大胜利，但仍存在挑战。澳大利亚仍是世界上皮肤癌发病率最高的国家之一，每年约有 2000 人死于这种疾病。皮肤癌也是对任何癌症类型的医疗系统造成最高成本负担的疾病。尽管如此，国家一级的政府投资仍存在不足。由于以前使用的方法已不可行，因此更难以收集有价值的、有代表性的全国人口皮肤癌预防行为数据来支持和评估项目，这使得情况变得更加困难。十多年来，澳大利亚一直没有开展全国性的皮肤癌预防大众媒体运动，这表明政策制定者自满情绪严重。州和地区政府也可以做更多的工作，实施基于证据的政策，旨在保护儿童免受紫外线辐射。本文阐述了 2021 年澳大利亚的皮肤癌预防现状，并提出了政府重新关注防晒的理由，以保护四十年来取得的重大成果，并保护后代免受几乎完全可以预防的癌症的侵害。
