2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 845 540 63.8 59.4-67.9 63 9.1 6.6-12.4 94 10.6 8.3-13.5 75 9.0 6.9-11.6 73 7.5 5.6-10.0
GENDER
Male 387 253 64.5 58.1-70.5 27 10.1 6.3-15.9 43 11.2 7.9-15.7 28 7.0 4.6-10.7 36 7.1 4.8-10.5
Female 458 287 63.1 57.2-68.6 36 8.1 5.4-12.0 51 10.1 7.2-14.1 47 10.9 7.9-14.9 37 7.8 5.1-11.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 538 346 63.2 57.9-68.1 42 9.4 6.6-13.2 59 10.3 7.7-13.8 37 7.8 5.4-11.2 54 9.3 6.6-12.9
Non-Hispanic Black 227 142 63.5 55.1-71.2 16 8.2 4.5-14.6 25 12.2 7.6-19.1 30 11.4 7.5-17.0 14 4.6 2.5- 8.5
Other 80 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 263 180 67.8 60.7-74.2 21 9.6 5.7-15.7 28 9.7 6.4-14.4 21 8.1 5.1-12.6 13 4.9 2.7- 8.8
45-64 306 182 60.8 53.6-67.5 19 6.5 3.7-11.3 36 11.7 7.8-17.3 34 11.0 7.6-15.7 35 10.0 6.4-15.2
65+ 265 169 58.7 51.0-65.9 21 10.8 6.3-17.8 30 11.8 7.7-17.5 20 8.7 5.1-14.4 25 10.2 6.3-16.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 338 201 59.4 52.7-65.8 25 10.0 6.3-15.5 42 12.5 8.7-17.6 35 10.2 6.9-14.8 35 7.8 5.1-11.8
Some Post-H.S. 254 166 67.0 59.1-74.1 20 8.9 4.9-15.8 24 7.7 4.8-12.1 20 7.8 4.8-12.3 24 8.6 5.2-13.9
College Graduate 252 172 67.0 59.6-73.6 18 7.4 4.1-12.7 28 12.2 7.9-18.3 20 8.8 5.4-13.9 14 4.7 2.7- 8.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 412 246 62.2 56.1-67.8 30 8.0 5.1-12.3 45 10.3 7.2-14.4 40 10.5 7.3-14.9 51 9.1 6.5-12.6
$50,000+ 272 191 67.9 59.9-75.0 22 12.1 7.1-20.1 27 8.7 5.6-13.2 22 7.3 4.6-11.5 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 154 98 60.2 49.7-69.8 11 7.1 3.2-14.8 22 15.9 9.6-25.2 13 8.9 4.8-15.7 *** *** ***

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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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