2023 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 4,011 2,592 63.2 61.1-65.4 357 10.2 8.8-11.7 463 11.6 10.3-13.0 333 8.5 7.3- 9.9 266 6.6 5.5- 7.7
Medicaid Region 4 951 618 65.3 61.3-69.0 109 11.6 9.3-14.3 115 12.4 9.8-15.5 66 6.8 5.2- 8.9 43 3.9 2.7- 5.7
GENDER
Male 436 305 69.4 63.7-74.7 50 12.0 8.7-16.4 44 10.7 7.4-15.4 20 4.7 2.9- 7.5 17 3.1 1.8- 5.5
Female 515 313 61.4 55.9-66.6 59 11.2 8.4-14.9 71 13.9 10.4-18.5 46 8.7 6.2-12.1 26 4.7 2.9- 7.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 570 356 61.8 56.7-66.7 80 15.2 11.8-19.2 72 12.7 9.5-16.7 36 7.2 4.9-10.3 26 3.2 2.1- 4.9
Non-Hispanic Black 180 111 63.8 54.5-72.1 17 8.0 4.6-13.6 23 13.3 8.0-21.3 18 7.8 4.6-12.9 11 7.1 3.6-13.7
Other 186 140 75.4 66.2-82.7 11 6.2 3.2-11.9 19 11.4 6.1-20.5 11 4.6 2.3- 8.8 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 376 246 66.0 59.9-71.6 53 13.5 10.1-17.9 51 15.5 11.1-21.1 17 3.4 2.1- 5.7 *** *** ***
45-64 310 202 65.5 58.7-71.6 35 11.1 7.5-16.2 35 10.3 6.9-15.2 25 8.8 5.7-13.5 13 4.3 2.4- 7.5
65+ 254 159 61.5 53.1-69.3 21 8.4 4.7-14.6 29 8.9 5.9-13.3 24 11.9 7.4-18.5 21 9.3 5.2-16.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 231 160 67.5 59.4-74.7 15 8.0 4.5-13.8 29 14.7 9.5-22.0 17 5.9 3.5- 9.9 *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 210 128 64.4 56.3-71.8 18 8.4 5.2-13.4 24 11.1 6.7-18.0 22 9.3 5.8-14.7 18 6.7 3.9-11.3
College Graduate 505 326 63.6 58.5-68.5 76 16.8 13.1-21.3 61 11.4 8.7-14.9 27 5.9 3.8- 9.0 15 2.2 1.3- 3.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 239 134 57.0 48.8-64.7 24 10.8 6.8-16.9 31 14.0 9.0-21.2 29 10.6 7.1-15.4 21 7.6 4.3-13.0
$50,000+ 526 347 66.6 61.4-71.5 72 13.0 10.0-16.8 62 12.5 9.1-16.9 29 5.5 3.7- 8.3 16 2.3 1.4- 4.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 177 131 70.8 61.5-78.5 12 9.0 4.8-16.3 20 9.9 5.8-16.6 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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