Learning to save our skin.

Abstract

With serious depletion occurring in the stratospheric ozone layer, we face a public health problem that poses an educational challenge as well. How do we teach our children about the hazard and how to respond to it? Although we have the science to demonstrate the problem, changing young people's behavior on a large scale is at best a slow and uncertain process, especially when the behavior involves something most of them perceive as a familiar pleasure and a reward: The Hawaii sun.