2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

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 4,623 3,079 68.0 66.3-69.7 374 9.0 7.9-10.1 429 8.7 7.8- 9.7 342 6.9 6.0- 7.8 399 7.5 6.6- 8.5
Medicaid Region 2 649 448 70.2 66.0-74.1 44 6.7 4.8- 9.3 63 10.3 7.9-13.3 32 4.9 3.3- 7.1 62 7.9 5.9-10.5
GENDER
Male 297 217 75.0 69.0-80.2 19 5.8 3.6- 9.3 21 7.8 4.9-12.1 *** *** *** 31 8.0 5.2-12.3
Female 352 231 66.0 60.0-71.4 25 7.5 4.8-11.6 42 12.5 9.0-17.1 23 6.2 3.9- 9.6 31 7.9 5.4-11.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 470 320 68.3 63.3-73.0 35 7.9 5.4-11.2 45 10.2 7.5-13.8 20 4.3 2.6- 6.8 50 9.3 6.8-12.7
Non-Hispanic Black 112 80 74.0 64.1-81.9 *** *** *** 11 10.4 5.4-19.0 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 67 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 215 159 75.7 68.9-81.4 22 9.5 6.0-14.6 19 8.4 5.1-13.4 13 5.3 2.9- 9.5 *** *** ***
45-64 229 141 62.3 55.1-68.9 15 5.6 3.2- 9.6 29 14.4 9.9-20.4 15 6.2 3.5-10.7 29 11.6 7.9-16.7
65+ 194 139 70.7 62.5-77.7 *** *** *** 14 7.7 4.3-13.4 *** *** *** 30 15.8 10.2-23.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 232 161 71.6 64.5-77.7 *** *** *** 16 7.0 4.0-11.9 15 5.1 3.0- 8.6 31 10.5 7.1-15.4
Some Post-H.S. 193 130 70.2 62.6-76.7 15 5.7 3.3- 9.7 23 11.0 7.1-16.6 *** *** *** 17 8.0 4.7-13.3
College Graduate 221 154 67.8 60.2-74.5 20 9.6 6.0-14.9 24 14.5 9.6-21.4 *** *** *** 14 4.0 2.2- 7.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 270 167 64.2 57.3-70.6 20 6.9 4.1-11.4 28 10.0 6.6-14.8 22 8.6 5.4-13.4 33 10.3 7.0-14.9
$50,000+ 247 187 75.6 69.0-81.1 16 6.2 3.7-10.3 26 12.7 8.5-18.6 *** *** *** 12 3.2 1.6- 6.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 126 89 71.7 61.8-79.8 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 17 12.9 7.4-21.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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