2023 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 4,011 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 5 959 629 63.0 57.8-68.0 68 7.3 5.2-10.1 95 8.9 6.5-12.0 89 11.0 7.7-15.4 78 9.8 6.6-14.3
GENDER
Male 404 282 66.2 57.7-73.8 27 4.8 2.8- 8.0 30 6.1 3.8- 9.7 37 14.1 8.4-22.7 28 8.8 4.4-16.6
Female 555 347 60.1 53.4-66.4 41 9.6 6.3-14.4 65 11.4 7.7-16.7 52 8.1 5.5-11.7 50 10.8 6.8-16.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 407 261 60.6 54.0-66.9 36 9.1 6.1-13.4 42 9.5 6.4-13.8 32 8.5 5.8-12.2 36 12.3 7.6-19.2
Non-Hispanic Black 160 *** *** *** *** *** *** 18 11.6 6.1-20.8 17 13.4 6.5-25.7 12 7.3 3.6-14.2
Other 377 *** *** *** 25 6.2 2.7-13.3 34 3.6 1.3- 9.7 *** *** *** 29 3.4 0.7-15.2
AGE
18-44 319 220 66.5 58.3-73.8 28 8.7 5.5-13.6 29 8.3 5.1-13.2 30 11.3 6.3-19.4 12 5.2 2.3-11.4
45-64 336 217 63.9 54.4-72.4 20 2.8 1.5- 5.2 39 11.9 6.8-19.9 27 8.2 4.7-13.8 33 13.2 7.2-23.2
65+ 288 181 56.7 46.8-66.2 19 8.7 4.7-15.4 26 6.9 4.1-11.5 32 14.9 8.1-25.8 30 12.8 6.2-24.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 308 202 60.6 50.9-69.5 15 7.0 3.6-13.3 30 9.0 4.9-15.8 30 8.7 4.6-15.9 31 14.7 8.2-24.9
Some Post-H.S. 298 192 63.8 54.6-72.1 18 5.5 3.0-10.1 32 10.7 6.8-16.4 31 14.7 8.2-25.0 25 5.3 2.6-10.4
College Graduate 350 232 65.2 57.7-71.9 35 10.1 6.7-14.9 33 6.5 3.9-10.4 28 9.6 6.0-14.9 22 8.7 4.7-15.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 352 209 55.3 46.4-63.8 19 6.4 3.1-12.7 40 9.8 5.8-16.1 42 15.0 9.4-23.1 42 13.5 7.4-23.4
$50,000+ 389 269 67.4 60.5-73.7 38 10.4 6.9-15.4 37 10.1 6.4-15.4 26 7.1 4.4-11.1 19 5.1 2.6- 9.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 211 *** *** *** 11 3.7 1.7- 8.0 18 5.9 2.8-12.3 *** *** *** 16 12.1 5.7-23.7

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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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