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Sunburn Prevalence by Race/Ethnicity, New Jersey, 2012 to 2020
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Why Is This Important?
Sunburn is a risk factor for skin cancer, the most common of all cancers. About 3.5 million cases of basal and squamous cell skin cancer are diagnosed in the U.S. each year. Melanoma, a more dangerous type of skin cancer, accounted for more than 73,000 cases of skin cancer in the U.S. in 2015.
Definition
The proportion of adults aged 18 years and older who report having a sunburn at least one time in the past year.
Data Notes
- Data have been age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population.
- Estimates are age-adjusted using the 2000 U.S. standard population.
Data Source
Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health(http://www.nj.gov/health/chs/njbrfs/)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of persons aged 18 years and older who report having a sunburn at least one time in the past 12 months.Denominator:
Total number of persons aged 18 and older interviewed during the same survey period.
Data Issues
Data from the New Jersey Behavioral Risk Factor Survey are intended to be representative of all non-institutionalized adult residents of New Jersey. Due to resource issues, however, adults with limited personal access to phone service or limited command of either English or Spanish are not represented. As with all surveys, also, some error results from nonresponse (e.g., refusal to participate in the survey or to answer specific questions), and faulty measurement (e.g., responses affected by social desirability or recall error). Data collection procedures intended to minimize such errors include the use of strict calling protocols, good questionnaire design, standardization of interviewer behavior, interviewer training, and frequent, on-site interviewer monitoring and supervision. Statistical weighting procedures are also used to minimize the potential impact of disproportionate representation of demographic subgroups defined in terms of age, sex, race, ethnicity, education level, marital status, home ownership, and county of residence. (See also [[a href="query/BRFSSQueryTechNotes.html" Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Data Description and Technical Notes]].)Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective C-20.2
U.S. Target: Reduce the proportion of adults aged 18 years and older who report at least one sunburn in the past 12 months to 33.8 percent by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/cancer
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective CA-18
NJ Target: Reduce sunburn among adults to 21.5 percent (age-adjusted) for the total population, 7.4% for Asians, 4.5% for Blacks, 11.6% for Hispanics, and 30.7% for Whites by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/cancer.shtml