QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Always Use Sunscreen When Outside for >1 Hour On a Sunny Day, by Sex and Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2020

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• Alternative Title:
  Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Always Use Sunscreen When Outside for >1 Hour on a Sunny Day, by Sex and Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2020
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Villarroel, Maria A. ; Warren, Antonia J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  In 2020, 12.3% of men and 29.0% of women aged ≥18 years always used sunscreen when outside on a sunny day for >1 hour. The percentage of men who always used sunscreen was lowest among those aged 18–29 years (8.2%) and increased to 13.7% among those aged 30–44, 13.0% among those aged 45–64, and 13.6% among those aged ≥65 years. The percentage of women who always used sunscreen was lower among those aged 18–29 and ≥65 years (25.7% and 27.7%, respectively) compared with those aged 30–44 and 45–64 years (30.0% and 30.9%, respectively). For every age group, women were more likely than men to always use sunscreen.
  
  Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm
  
  Reported by: Maria A. Villarroel, PhD; Antonia J. Warren, MS.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Notification Epidemiology Public Health Public Health Surveillance
• Source:
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 71(22):747
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Charts, Diagrams, Etc.
• Genre:
  QuickStats ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  71
• Issue:
  22
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) National Center for Health Statistics
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