Over 50,000 individual level data of behaviors, illnesses, demographics from beachgoers across the United States. This dataset is not publicly accessible because: EPA cannot release personally identifiable information regarding living individuals, according to the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This dataset contains information about human research subjects. Because there is potential to identify individual participants and disclose personal information, either alone or in combination with other datasets, individual level data are not appropriate to post for public access. Restricted access may be granted to authorized persons by contacting the party listed. It can be accessed through the following means: Contact Tim Wade (wade.tim@epa.gov). Format: Data are stored in SAS data files and delimited text files. Codebooks with descriptions of each of the variables are available.
This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Deflorio-Barker, S., D. Holman, R. Landolfi, B. Arnold, J. Colford, S. Weisberg, K. Schiff, E. Sams, and T. Wade. Incidence and Public Health Burden of Sunburn Among Beachgoers in the United States#. Preventive Medicine. Elsevier Online, New York, NY, USA, 134: 106047, (2020).