2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Chronic Health Conditions

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional EVER told you that you had any of the following?

(Ever told) you had skin cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,898 446 7.2 6.3- 8.1 4,452 92.8 91.9-93.7
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 814 109 10.2 7.9-13.1 705 89.8 86.9-92.1
Region 3 & 5 925 75 7.4 5.6- 9.6 850 92.6 90.4-94.4
Region 4 685 59 6.1 4.6- 8.1 626 93.9 91.9-95.4
Region 6 & 7 1,013 67 6.4 4.7- 8.5 946 93.6 91.5-95.3
Region 8 718 61 6.9 5.2- 9.2 657 93.1 90.8-94.8
Region 9 & 10 745 75 8.1 6.2-10.6 670 91.9 89.4-93.8
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,949 157 6.1 5.0- 7.4 1,792 93.9 92.6-95.0
Piedmont 2,005 163 6.9 5.8- 8.3 1,842 93.1 91.7-94.2
Western NC 946 126 10.0 7.9-12.7 820 90.0 87.3-92.1
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 728 99 13.1 10.0-16.9 629 86.9 83.1-90.0
Northwest 625 58 7.8 5.7-10.5 567 92.2 89.5-94.3
Charlotte 561 50 6.0 4.4- 8.1 511 94.0 91.9-95.6
Greensboro 384 26 5.5 3.5- 8.5 358 94.5 91.5-96.5
Southern Regional 699 38 3.5 2.3- 5.4 661 96.5 94.6-97.7
Southeast 307 39 12.6 9.0-17.3 268 87.4 82.7-91.0
Wake 635 54 6.4 4.6- 8.8 581 93.6 91.2-95.4
Area L & Eastern 961 82 5.4 4.1- 7.0 879 94.6 93.0-95.9

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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