Body piercing and tattoo: awareness of health related risks among 4,277 Italian secondary school adolescents
Open Access
- 17 February 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 10 (1) , 73
Abstract
The awareness of health risks associated with body art among secondary school pupils has never previously been studied in depth. A large sample of secondary school adolescents from the Veneto Region (North East Italy) were investigated in order to inform health education programs.Keywords
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