2023 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 any melanoma or any other types of cancer?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,075 398 8.0 7.0- 9.1 3,677 92.0 90.9-93.0
Medicaid Region 5 975 97 9.3 6.9-12.4 878 90.7 87.6-93.1
GENDER
Male 410 35 7.0 4.3-11.2 375 93.0 88.8-95.7
Female 565 62 11.5 7.9-16.4 503 88.5 83.6-92.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 411 58 12.4 8.8-17.3 353 87.6 82.7-91.2
Non-Hispanic Black 164 *** *** *** 155 95.3 89.4-98.0
Other 386 29 5.1 2.1-11.7 357 94.9 88.3-97.9
AGE
18-44 322 11 2.2 0.9- 5.0 311 97.8 95.0-99.1
45-64 346 25 9.5 5.2-16.7 321 90.5 83.3-94.8
65+ 292 58 21.0 14.5-29.3 234 79.0 70.7-85.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 319 28 6.5 3.6-11.4 291 93.5 88.6-96.4
Some Post-H.S. 302 32 13.7 8.7-21.0 270 86.3 79.0-91.3
College Graduate 351 37 7.7 4.9-11.9 314 92.3 88.1-95.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 359 37 9.2 5.5-15.1 322 90.8 84.9-94.5
$50,000+ 394 41 12.0 7.8-18.0 353 88.0 82.0-92.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 213 18 4.8 2.5- 8.8 195 95.2 91.2-97.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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