2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 874 593 69.4 65.7-72.9 84 10.2 7.9-13.2 85 8.2 6.5-10.4 63 7.0 5.3- 9.3 49 5.0 3.7- 6.8
GENDER
Male 418 304 73.4 68.2-77.9 33 7.6 5.1-11.0 30 6.5 4.3- 9.7 27 7.8 5.2-11.7 24 4.7 3.1- 7.2
Female 456 289 65.9 60.4-71.0 51 12.7 9.0-17.6 55 9.8 7.3-13.1 36 6.3 4.3- 9.2 25 5.3 3.4- 8.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 533 358 68.2 63.3-72.7 58 12.4 9.1-16.7 50 8.4 6.2-11.4 37 6.0 4.1- 8.6 30 5.0 3.3- 7.5
Non-Hispanic Black 199 129 69.8 62.1-76.6 17 7.2 4.2-12.2 22 8.0 4.9-12.6 19 9.1 5.3-15.1 12 5.9 3.2-10.7
Other 142 106 74.5 65.0-82.1 *** *** *** 13 8.1 4.4-14.2 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 362 259 73.0 67.5-78.0 43 11.1 7.8-15.7 37 8.8 6.2-12.4 18 6.0 3.7- 9.7 *** *** ***
45-64 289 183 63.5 57.0-69.5 30 11.0 7.4-15.9 29 8.8 5.9-12.8 24 7.9 5.1-12.2 23 8.9 5.8-13.5
65+ 207 138 69.5 60.4-77.3 11 7.3 2.7-18.1 19 6.5 3.8-10.9 20 8.4 4.8-14.5 19 8.3 4.9-13.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 273 183 69.2 62.4-75.2 22 9.3 5.5-15.2 23 6.7 4.2-10.6 23 8.7 5.5-13.7 22 6.1 3.8- 9.7
Some Post-H.S. 187 119 64.8 56.3-72.4 20 12.4 7.4-20.3 18 7.8 4.6-12.9 15 8.2 4.8-13.7 15 6.7 3.8-11.4
College Graduate 413 290 72.7 67.7-77.2 42 9.7 7.0-13.4 44 10.0 7.3-13.6 25 4.6 2.9- 7.4 12 3.0 1.5- 5.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 305 186 60.1 53.4-66.5 24 9.1 5.3-15.0 37 11.2 7.8-15.6 32 11.6 7.8-16.9 26 8.0 5.3-12.1
$50,000+ 392 285 75.9 70.9-80.3 42 10.3 7.3-14.2 36 7.7 5.3-11.0 18 3.6 2.1- 6.2 11 2.5 1.3- 4.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 168 116 70.8 61.7-78.5 16 10.8 5.7-19.5 12 5.5 2.7-10.7 12 6.8 3.5-12.7 12 6.1 3.2-11.4

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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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