2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

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 3 712 501 69.6 65.4-73.4 64 9.9 7.7-12.8 56 7.4 5.5- 9.9 45 6.0 4.3- 8.3 46 7.1 5.0-10.1
GENDER
Male 331 244 74.4 68.6-79.4 28 8.8 6.0-12.8 21 5.7 3.4- 9.2 18 4.2 2.6- 6.8 20 6.9 4.0-11.7
Female 381 257 65.1 59.1-70.6 36 11.0 7.7-15.4 35 9.0 6.2-13.0 27 7.6 4.9-11.6 26 7.3 4.5-11.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 464 319 66.9 61.6-71.9 42 10.0 7.2-13.6 40 7.9 5.6-11.2 28 6.2 4.0- 9.4 35 9.0 6.0-13.3
Non-Hispanic Black 136 97 71.6 62.5-79.3 15 11.8 7.0-19.4 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 112 85 79.0 69.8-86.0 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 286 206 71.1 64.8-76.6 34 12.4 8.7-17.3 24 8.8 5.7-13.4 15 5.2 2.9- 9.2 *** *** ***
45-64 235 164 70.1 63.1-76.3 24 10.7 7.0-16.0 16 5.1 3.0- 8.6 17 7.2 4.3-11.7 14 6.9 3.6-12.7
65+ 176 117 61.3 51.0-70.8 *** *** *** 16 9.0 5.0-15.8 13 6.4 3.6-11.2 24 20.0 12.0-31.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 241 170 69.5 62.2-75.9 13 5.7 3.2- 9.8 18 6.3 3.8-10.2 16 6.2 3.5-10.8 24 12.3 7.7-19.0
Some Post-H.S. 217 146 65.7 58.2-72.5 23 12.4 8.1-18.5 22 10.5 6.6-16.4 17 7.2 4.3-11.7 *** *** ***
College Graduate 249 182 75.1 68.8-80.6 28 13.3 9.0-19.1 14 4.3 2.4- 7.7 12 3.9 2.1- 7.1 13 3.3 1.8- 6.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 277 182 67.1 60.5-73.1 19 6.9 4.3-10.9 29 9.2 6.1-13.7 28 9.8 6.4-14.8 19 7.0 4.2-11.5
$50,000+ 295 213 71.7 65.4-77.3 40 14.9 10.7-20.2 18 5.6 3.3- 9.5 *** *** *** 14 4.7 2.3- 9.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 131 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 13 13.5 6.7-25.4

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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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