2023 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 4,245 2,808 66.9 65.2-68.6 370 8.3 7.4- 9.3 456 10.8 9.8-12.0 333 7.8 6.8- 8.8 278 6.1 5.3- 7.0
Medicaid Region 3 872 606 69.8 66.1-73.3 77 8.3 6.4-10.6 86 10.2 8.0-12.8 60 7.7 5.7-10.3 43 4.0 2.9- 5.6
GENDER
Male 408 300 74.3 69.0-79.0 32 7.0 4.7-10.2 37 8.9 6.1-12.8 20 5.9 3.5- 9.7 19 4.0 2.4- 6.6
Female 464 306 65.7 60.3-70.6 45 9.5 6.8-13.0 49 11.4 8.4-15.3 40 9.4 6.5-13.4 24 4.0 2.6- 6.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 491 343 70.8 65.9-75.2 43 8.5 6.1-11.7 52 10.6 7.8-14.2 29 6.7 4.4-10.0 24 3.5 2.2- 5.4
Non-Hispanic Black 177 123 70.3 61.6-77.7 19 8.6 5.2-13.8 13 7.5 4.0-13.4 13 8.6 4.3-16.6 *** *** ***
Other 196 135 66.5 58.0-74.1 14 6.8 3.7-12.2 21 12.5 7.8-19.6 17 9.7 5.4-16.7 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 364 255 69.2 63.4-74.4 38 10.3 7.3-14.5 42 11.8 8.4-16.2 17 5.8 3.4- 9.9 12 2.8 1.5- 5.3
45-64 280 191 69.0 62.4-75.0 26 8.2 5.4-12.2 18 6.5 3.9-10.6 27 10.8 6.9-16.6 18 5.5 3.3- 9.1
65+ 206 142 71.6 63.7-78.4 12 4.1 2.2- 7.6 25 12.2 7.7-18.7 15 7.6 4.2-13.4 12 4.5 2.3- 8.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 250 172 70.4 63.4-76.6 12 4.6 2.3- 9.0 25 9.9 6.3-15.2 26 10.0 6.4-15.4 15 5.1 2.9- 8.6
Some Post-H.S. 221 156 70.4 63.0-76.8 14 6.1 3.5-10.4 24 11.6 7.5-17.3 17 9.1 5.2-15.3 *** *** ***
College Graduate 395 275 69.3 63.8-74.2 49 13.1 9.7-17.4 37 9.5 6.7-13.5 17 4.5 2.5- 7.8 17 3.7 2.1- 6.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 241 154 64.1 56.4-71.0 18 6.3 3.8-10.5 22 9.9 6.2-15.3 31 13.9 9.3-20.4 16 5.8 3.3-10.1
$50,000+ 422 303 71.3 66.1-76.0 48 11.3 8.3-15.3 45 12.0 8.7-16.3 13 3.0 1.6- 5.5 13 2.5 1.3- 4.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 200 142 73.6 65.6-80.3 *** *** *** 19 7.5 4.3-12.6 15 9.6 5.2-17.1 14 5.4 3.0- 9.4

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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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