2024 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 4,245 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 5 575 367 62.8 58.0-67.4 47 8.5 6.2-11.5 63 12.0 9.1-15.7 50 8.2 6.0-11.2 48 8.5 6.1-11.7
GENDER
Male 272 168 60.4 53.5-66.9 26 9.4 6.2-14.0 34 13.9 9.7-19.5 16 5.4 3.2- 9.1 28 10.9 7.1-16.3
Female 303 199 65.0 58.3-71.2 21 7.6 4.7-12.0 29 10.3 6.7-15.5 34 10.8 7.2-15.7 20 6.3 3.9-10.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 364 228 62.0 56.1-67.6 25 7.0 4.5-10.8 47 14.2 10.5-18.9 35 9.0 6.2-12.9 29 7.8 5.2-11.5
Non-Hispanic Black 98 *** *** *** 18 17.0 10.6-26.3 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 104 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 218 142 64.8 57.2-71.8 22 9.8 6.1-15.2 27 14.9 9.9-21.7 17 6.3 3.8-10.4 *** *** ***
45-64 185 113 57.1 48.6-65.3 16 9.0 5.5-14.5 20 10.2 6.3-16.1 15 10.6 5.9-18.1 21 13.0 8.0-20.5
65+ 168 108 63.8 54.8-72.0 *** *** *** 16 9.7 5.6-16.2 18 9.3 5.4-15.7 17 11.3 6.7-18.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 206 134 62.2 54.1-69.6 17 9.0 5.5-14.5 20 11.6 7.1-18.3 18 8.0 4.8-12.8 17 9.3 5.3-15.6
Some Post-H.S. 164 104 62.5 53.6-70.6 *** *** *** 17 12.1 7.3-19.3 17 10.0 5.7-17.0 16 9.0 5.3-14.8
College Graduate 204 128 63.4 55.8-70.5 20 10.3 6.5-16.0 26 12.9 8.6-18.9 15 6.5 3.6-11.3 15 6.8 4.0-11.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 179 105 57.0 48.2-65.4 17 12.3 7.4-19.7 13 7.4 3.6-14.5 16 7.5 4.4-12.6 28 15.8 10.2-23.5
$50,000+ 265 172 63.8 56.9-70.1 25 8.6 5.6-12.9 38 16.1 11.6-22.0 18 6.8 4.1-11.2 12 4.7 2.6- 8.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 125 85 68.3 57.4-77.6 *** *** *** 12 10.0 5.1-18.9 16 12.9 7.0-22.5 *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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