2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 4 Demographics

Health Care Access

Was there a time in the past 12 months when you needed to see a doctor but could not because you could not afford it?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,082 430 10.7 9.5-12.1 3,652 89.3 87.9-90.5
Region 4 580 62 10.5 7.8-14.0 518 89.5 86.0-92.2
GENDER
Male 269 30 10.1 6.5-15.4 239 89.9 84.6-93.5
Female 311 32 10.8 7.3-15.8 279 89.2 84.2-92.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 346 23 7.6 4.7-12.1 323 92.4 87.9-95.3
Non-Hispanic Black 122 17 9.8 5.6-16.7 105 90.2 83.3-94.4
Other 101 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 223 34 14.1 9.6-20.2 189 85.9 79.8-90.4
45-64 187 22 10.5 6.3-17.1 165 89.5 82.9-93.7
65+ 158 *** *** *** 153 97.6 93.2-99.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 168 29 15.8 10.4-23.4 139 84.2 76.6-89.6
Some Post-H.S. 155 17 8.5 5.0-14.2 138 91.5 85.8-95.0
College Graduate 252 16 6.6 3.4-12.5 236 93.4 87.5-96.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 173 37 20.0 13.6-28.6 136 80.0 71.4-86.4
$50,000+ 264 15 5.5 3.0- 9.8 249 94.5 90.2-97.0
Don't know/Not Sure 135 *** *** *** 126 92.7 85.3-96.6

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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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