2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

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 5 795 513 65.7 61.6-69.6 65 8.1 6.0-10.9 72 9.1 7.0-11.7 68 7.7 5.8-10.1 77 9.4 7.1-12.3
GENDER
Male 374 250 69.7 63.9-75.0 28 7.8 4.8-12.5 26 6.8 4.4-10.3 31 7.0 4.6-10.3 39 8.8 6.2-12.4
Female 421 263 61.9 56.1-67.4 37 8.5 5.9-12.0 46 11.3 8.1-15.4 37 8.4 5.7-12.2 38 10.0 6.6-14.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 492 313 63.3 58.1-68.1 45 9.2 6.4-13.1 46 9.1 6.6-12.4 43 8.7 6.2-12.0 45 9.6 6.8-13.5
Non-Hispanic Black 155 106 73.7 65.0-80.9 *** *** *** 14 9.1 5.0-16.0 *** *** *** 19 8.9 5.3-14.6
Other 148 94 62.8 52.1-72.5 *** *** *** 12 8.8 4.5-16.6 19 11.4 6.3-19.8 13 9.1 3.7-20.6
AGE
18-44 290 195 69.9 63.8-75.4 31 9.1 6.1-13.5 27 8.2 5.4-12.2 22 8.1 5.1-12.4 15 4.7 2.7- 8.0
45-64 256 156 59.3 51.4-66.8 22 9.7 5.6-16.2 27 11.3 7.4-16.9 29 9.4 6.2-14.2 22 10.2 5.9-17.1
65+ 230 147 64.6 56.7-71.8 11 3.9 2.0- 7.5 17 7.3 4.1-12.6 16 4.9 2.8- 8.5 39 19.3 13.4-27.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 296 187 64.2 57.3-70.6 16 6.9 4.0-11.8 23 7.2 4.6-11.1 29 8.6 5.6-12.9 41 13.1 8.9-18.9
Some Post-H.S. 242 147 62.2 54.6-69.2 24 9.1 5.4-15.0 26 11.2 7.2-16.8 19 8.2 5.0-13.2 26 9.3 5.9-14.5
College Graduate 256 178 73.0 66.8-78.5 25 8.8 5.9-13.1 23 9.3 5.9-14.1 20 5.5 3.4- 8.9 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 399 237 59.1 53.2-64.8 33 7.5 5.0-11.2 36 9.7 6.6-13.9 43 10.3 7.3-14.4 50 13.4 9.6-18.4
$50,000+ 252 184 74.7 67.8-80.6 23 10.1 5.9-16.6 21 7.5 4.6-11.9 15 5.0 2.7- 9.0 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 134 84 64.9 54.4-74.2 *** *** *** 14 10.6 6.0-18.0 *** *** *** 18 11.8 6.4-20.8

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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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