2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

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 4,714 445 7.3 6.5- 8.2 4,269 92.7 91.8-93.5
Medicaid Region 5 820 68 7.0 5.3- 9.2 752 93.0 90.8-94.7
GENDER
Male 383 26 4.1 2.6- 6.4 357 95.9 93.6-97.4
Female 437 42 9.7 6.9-13.5 395 90.3 86.5-93.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 505 64 10.8 8.1-14.1 441 89.2 85.9-91.9
Non-Hispanic Black 163 *** *** *** 162 98.9 92.7-99.8
Other 152 *** *** *** 149 99.2 97.1-99.8
AGE
18-44 294 *** *** *** 284 96.8 93.3-98.5
45-64 260 14 5.9 3.3-10.3 246 94.1 89.7-96.7
65+ 247 42 16.5 11.8-22.6 205 83.5 77.4-88.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 311 15 4.0 2.2- 7.5 296 96.0 92.5-97.8
Some Post-H.S. 250 20 8.1 5.0-12.9 230 91.9 87.1-95.0
College Graduate 258 33 10.8 7.4-15.3 225 89.2 84.7-92.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 412 34 7.0 4.7-10.2 378 93.0 89.8-95.3
$50,000+ 255 24 8.9 5.7-13.8 231 91.1 86.2-94.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 143 *** *** *** 133 95.6 90.7-98.0

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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