2021 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 4,845 3,386 70.8 69.1-72.4 380 7.6 6.7- 8.6 416 8.1 7.2- 9.1 356 7.5 6.6- 8.6 307 6.0 5.2- 7.0
Medicaid Region 3 736 533 73.5 69.6-77.0 60 7.5 5.6- 9.9 50 6.4 4.8- 8.7 52 7.6 5.5-10.3 41 5.0 3.6- 7.1
GENDER
Male 358 260 73.0 67.3-78.1 30 7.6 5.0-11.3 20 5.1 3.2- 8.0 29 9.2 6.0-13.9 19 5.1 3.1- 8.4
Female 378 273 73.9 68.6-78.6 30 7.4 4.9-11.0 30 7.8 5.2-11.4 23 6.1 3.8- 9.4 22 4.9 3.1- 7.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 467 329 72.2 67.4-76.5 46 9.1 6.5-12.6 32 6.8 4.7- 9.8 33 6.8 4.7- 9.9 27 5.1 3.3- 7.6
Non-Hispanic Black 131 93 71.5 61.6-79.6 *** *** *** *** *** *** 14 11.8 6.4-20.9 *** *** ***
Other 121 98 80.9 71.5-87.7 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 299 224 74.8 68.7-80.1 26 7.8 4.9-12.2 22 6.6 4.2-10.2 19 8.1 4.9-13.2 *** *** ***
45-64 229 166 72.7 65.8-78.6 16 6.1 3.6-10.2 14 6.5 3.7-11.2 17 7.4 4.5-12.1 16 7.3 4.3-12.2
65+ 186 125 70.8 63.1-77.5 16 8.5 4.9-14.1 13 6.3 3.4-11.4 15 6.3 3.7-10.7 17 8.1 4.7-13.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 220 147 67.6 60.2-74.3 13 5.2 2.7- 9.7 16 7.1 4.1-11.8 27 12.8 8.4-19.1 17 7.3 4.4-12.0
Some Post-H.S. 198 146 76.2 69.3-82.0 18 9.3 5.6-14.9 *** *** *** 13 5.8 3.1-10.4 11 4.3 2.3- 8.0
College Graduate 313 236 77.6 72.4-82.1 29 8.4 5.7-12.3 23 7.5 4.9-11.4 12 3.3 1.8- 6.0 13 3.1 1.7- 5.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 221 152 68.5 60.9-75.2 19 8.9 5.3-14.4 12 6.1 3.3-11.1 21 9.9 6.0-15.9 17 6.6 3.8-11.3
$50,000+ 357 270 77.9 72.7-82.4 31 7.6 5.0-11.3 29 6.9 4.6-10.2 13 4.3 2.3- 8.1 14 3.2 1.8- 5.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 152 107 70.8 61.8-78.4 *** *** *** *** *** *** 18 11.7 6.9-19.2 *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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