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2010 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Healthy Days

Now thinking about your physical health, which includes physical illness and injury,
for how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?

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  Total
Respond.^		 None 1-2 days 3-7 days 8-29 days 30 days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 11,870 7,801 68.4 67.0-69.7 958 9.3 8.4-10.3 1,042 8.4 7.7- 9.3 937 6.9 6.2- 7.7 1,132 6.9 6.3- 7.6
COUNTY/REGIONS
Alamance 301 196 65.6 57.6-72.8 15 5.6 3.1-10.1 32 12.7 7.6-20.4 26 6.7 4.2-10.7 32 9.4 6.0-14.3
Buncombe 256 173 70.6 63.1-77.2 12 7.7 4.0-14.4 25 8.2 5.0-13.3 22 7.7 4.5-12.6 24 5.8 3.7- 8.9
Cabarrus 301 207 72.0 64.2-78.7 30 12.0 6.9-20.1 19 6.6 3.8-11.3 18 3.9 2.2- 6.8 27 5.4 3.4- 8.5
Catawba 288 194 68.9 60.6-76.1 29 8.9 5.7-13.8 24 8.2 4.4-14.9 21 8.6 4.3-16.5 20 5.3 3.1- 8.9
Cumberland 291 168 58.5 51.0-65.6 25 10.8 6.6-17.4 28 9.3 5.6-15.1 36 13.0 8.7-19.1 34 8.3 5.6-12.1
Davidson 356 237 66.0 57.4-73.7 20 8.9 3.9-18.7 26 7.1 4.3-11.6 34 9.3 5.5-15.3 39 8.7 5.7-13.1
Durham 605 425 71.2 65.6-76.2 54 11.5 8.0-16.4 59 10.1 7.1-14.1 29 3.7 2.3- 5.7 38 3.5 2.3- 5.4
Forsyth 275 193 70.1 61.8-77.2 17 6.2 3.5-10.7 21 10.9 5.9-19.3 18 5.8 3.1-10.8 26 6.9 4.4-10.7
Gaston 262 175 68.5 59.6-76.2 19 7.6 4.3-13.1 24 9.8 5.5-16.9 19 6.3 3.4-11.4 25 7.8 4.2-13.8
Guilford 679 453 74.2 70.1-77.9 53 7.2 5.3- 9.7 76 9.4 7.1-12.5 41 3.8 2.7- 5.3 56 5.3 3.9- 7.3
Iredell 325 212 68.0 60.7-74.5 18 6.9 3.8-12.0 32 8.5 5.0-14.0 32 9.5 6.1-14.4 31 7.2 4.4-11.7
Johnston 269 166 66.2 57.6-73.8 25 11.8 7.0-19.1 31 9.5 6.2-14.2 16 5.7 2.8-11.1 31 6.8 4.1-11.0
Mecklenburg 597 408 70.9 65.6-75.7 61 13.5 9.7-18.5 44 7.2 4.9-10.4 42 4.8 3.3- 6.8 42 3.7 2.6- 5.3
New Hanover 324 229 73.5 67.0-79.1 26 7.0 4.5-10.7 20 5.5 3.3- 8.9 25 7.8 4.5-13.2 24 6.3 3.6-10.6
Onslow 293 177 58.4 50.2-66.1 31 14.1 8.9-21.6 31 10.3 6.6-15.9 21 6.7 3.8-11.5 33 10.6 6.3-17.2
Orange 293 191 63.9 55.5-71.5 37 13.4 8.4-20.6 35 15.1 9.8-22.6 16 4.6 2.4- 8.7 14 3.0 1.7- 5.3
Pitt 334 226 71.4 63.0-78.6 23 8.1 3.8-16.6 30 6.9 4.3-10.9 21 4.7 2.7- 7.8 34 8.9 4.8-16.0
Randolph 392 261 67.0 60.1-73.3 27 9.1 5.6-14.4 29 8.2 5.0-13.1 32 7.9 5.0-12.4 43 7.8 5.3-11.5
Robeson 303 181 67.4 60.3-73.8 26 6.7 4.2-10.6 27 8.2 5.1-12.9 31 9.5 6.0-14.8 38 8.2 5.6-11.7
Rowan 364 241 71.6 65.4-77.1 19 5.3 3.1- 8.9 30 9.0 5.7-14.0 31 5.8 3.9- 8.7 43 8.3 5.8-11.7
Union 341 240 67.9 58.1-76.3 32 16.4 9.0-28.0 16 6.6 3.3-12.6 28 5.3 3.3- 8.3 25 3.9 2.4- 6.1
Wake 701 489 70.0 64.9-74.7 81 11.5 8.9-14.7 58 8.4 6.1-11.6 39 6.9 4.1-11.5 34 3.1 1.8- 5.2
Wayne 353 236 71.3 63.6-78.0 23 7.2 4.1-12.3 22 5.6 3.3- 9.4 37 10.2 5.5-18.0 35 5.7 3.8- 8.4
NC REGIONS
Eastern NC 3,056 1,933 66.4 63.4-69.2 261 9.7 7.7-12.1 270 8.6 7.0-10.4 275 8.0 6.6- 9.6 317 7.4 6.2- 8.8
Piedmont 6,888 4,643 69.8 68.1-71.5 574 9.5 8.4-10.6 594 8.5 7.5- 9.6 493 6.1 5.2- 7.0 584 6.1 5.3- 7.1
Western NC 1,926 1,225 66.1 63.2-69.0 123 7.7 6.2- 9.6 178 8.0 6.6- 9.7 169 8.5 7.0-10.4 231 9.6 8.1-11.4
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 1,313 856 68.1 64.6-71.5 79 7.5 5.6-10.0 117 7.5 5.9- 9.6 113 9.1 7.1-11.5 148 7.8 6.3- 9.5
Northwest 2,348 1,531 67.6 64.6-70.4 154 6.9 5.6- 8.6 208 9.6 7.7-11.9 201 7.4 6.0- 9.0 254 8.5 7.2-10.0
Charlotte 1,690 1,144 69.3 65.7-72.6 158 11.8 9.4-14.6 119 7.4 5.8- 9.4 127 5.4 4.3- 6.8 142 6.1 4.4- 8.4
Greensboro 1,866 1,219 67.8 64.7-70.8 149 8.4 6.9-10.3 191 10.0 8.3-12.0 133 6.3 4.9- 8.0 174 7.4 6.0- 9.2
Southern Regional 1,036 622 66.7 61.8-71.2 94 9.1 6.7-12.3 98 8.7 6.0-12.4 110 8.1 6.2-10.6 112 7.4 5.4-10.0
Coastal 487 336 72.7 66.6-78.1 40 5.4 3.7- 8.0 32 6.8 4.4-10.5 42 7.1 4.7-10.8 37 7.9 4.7-12.9
Wake 1,766 1,211 70.6 67.2-73.7 176 10.8 8.9-12.9 162 8.1 6.5-10.0 97 5.8 4.0- 8.3 120 4.8 3.6- 6.4
Area L 124 87 73.5 63.3-81.7 5 4.1 1.5-10.2 10 10.0 4.8-19.7 12 7.5 4.0-13.5 10 5.0 2.4- 9.9
Eastern 1,240 795 63.7 58.1-68.9 103 12.3 8.2-18.1 105 7.8 5.6-10.7 102 8.2 5.7-11.5 135 8.0 5.9-10.8

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NOTE: For AHEC Regions, results for Area L are least reliable due to small sample size.

^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.

Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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