2023 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 4,011 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 6 522 325 61.4 55.9-66.6 46 10.7 7.7-14.8 60 10.6 7.9-14.1 55 11.0 7.8-15.4 36 6.3 4.2- 9.3
GENDER
Male 234 147 63.4 55.5-70.7 21 10.7 6.7-16.7 28 10.7 7.0-16.2 22 10.2 5.9-17.1 16 4.9 2.8- 8.4
Female 288 178 59.3 51.7-66.6 25 10.8 6.6-17.0 32 10.4 6.9-15.5 33 11.8 7.5-18.0 20 7.7 4.5-12.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 324 207 63.8 56.9-70.1 29 10.4 6.7-15.6 35 10.3 7.1-14.7 34 10.9 7.1-16.4 19 4.7 2.8- 7.8
Non-Hispanic Black 119 *** *** *** 12 12.1 6.1-22.6 15 9.2 4.8-17.0 15 10.7 5.7-19.0 14 12.2 6.6-21.3
Other 72 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 174 119 67.6 58.6-75.5 21 14.2 8.9-22.0 20 10.3 6.5-16.1 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 177 104 56.9 47.8-65.6 15 8.8 5.2-14.6 19 9.2 5.3-15.4 24 14.2 8.9-21.7 15 11.0 6.1-19.0
65+ 170 102 55.3 45.3-64.9 *** *** *** 21 12.8 7.5-21.1 21 15.9 9.0-26.4 16 9.4 5.2-16.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 172 102 56.6 46.9-65.8 15 11.0 6.1-19.2 17 8.6 4.8-14.8 20 14.5 8.2-24.4 18 9.3 5.4-15.7
Some Post-H.S. 168 101 61.6 52.5-69.9 12 10.5 5.9-18.1 24 12.9 8.2-19.7 18 9.0 5.3-15.0 13 6.0 3.1-11.2
College Graduate 179 121 69.6 61.0-76.9 18 10.1 6.0-16.5 18 9.7 5.7-16.1 17 8.8 4.9-15.2 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 185 103 56.3 46.8-65.3 *** *** *** 27 11.7 7.3-18.2 23 12.9 7.2-21.8 23 12.5 7.7-19.7
$50,000+ 232 151 66.1 58.5-73.0 26 10.7 6.8-16.3 23 10.6 6.8-16.2 22 8.9 5.6-13.9 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 100 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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