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SunSmart Global UV App
SunSmart Global UV App is a free application for mobile devices that describes the level of solar UV radiation at a specific location. It also provides time slots when to apply sun protection measures, in an effort to reduce the global burden of skin cancer and UV-related eye damage.
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Publications
24 April 2022
The effect of occupational exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation on malignant skin melanoma and non-melanoma...
This is a report for the World Health Organization (WHO)/International Labour Organization (ILO) Joint Estimates of the Work-Related Burden of Disease...
Artificial tanning is a recent phenomenon. Sunbeds and other tanning devices emitting artificial ultraviolet radiation (UVR) were developed in the 1960s...
Human exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation has important public health implications. Evidence of harm associated with overexposure to UV has been demonstrated...
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Contact
uvinfo@who.int
Resources
- Association of Indoor Tanning Regulations With Health and Economic Outcomes in North America and Europe[JAMA Dermatol. 2020 Apr 1;156(4):401-410]
- Indoor tanning prevalence after the International Agency for Research on Cancer statement on carcinogenicity of artificial tanning devices: systematic review and meta-analysis[Br J Dermatol, 2020 Apr;182(4):849-859. doi: 10.1111/bjd.18412. Epub 2019 Oct 16. ]
- Validity and use of the UV index: report from the UVI working group, Schloss Hohenkammer, Germany, 5-7 December 2011International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) [Health Phys. 2012 Sep;103(3):301-6. doi: 10.1097/HP0b013e31825b581e]
- Review of the Global Solar UV Index 2015 Workshop Report, [Health Phys. 2018 Jan; 114(1): 84–90. doi: 10.1097/HP.0000000000000742]
- Database of Cancers attributable to UV radiation
- European Code against Cancer 4th edition: Ultraviolet radiation and cancer. Lyon: International Agency of Research on Cancer; 2015
- Radiation. IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. A Review of Human Carcinogens vol. 100 D. Lyon: International Agency of Research on Cancer; 2012.
