2024 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 4,245 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 6 475 310 67.1 62.1-71.8 51 10.2 7.6-13.7 35 6.9 4.8-10.0 47 8.6 6.2-11.8 32 7.1 4.9-10.3
GENDER
Male 213 151 73.2 66.0-79.4 20 8.6 5.2-13.8 *** *** *** 17 6.9 4.1-11.6 15 6.7 3.9-11.2
Female 262 159 61.3 54.1-68.0 31 11.8 8.1-17.1 25 9.2 6.0-13.9 30 10.1 6.7-15.1 17 7.6 4.5-12.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 312 202 66.7 60.4-72.5 31 9.4 6.4-13.5 20 5.7 3.3- 9.5 39 11.3 7.9-16.0 20 6.9 4.2-11.2
Non-Hispanic Black 99 *** *** *** 16 14.2 8.1-23.6 11 10.8 5.8-19.2 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 61 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 171 113 68.2 60.0-75.3 22 12.4 7.9-18.8 16 7.6 4.4-12.9 14 7.8 4.3-13.5 *** *** ***
45-64 157 102 65.9 57.0-73.8 18 9.8 5.8-16.1 15 9.0 5.1-15.3 12 6.6 3.6-12.0 *** *** ***
65+ 142 91 66.3 56.7-74.7 *** *** *** *** *** *** 21 12.5 7.7-19.8 16 11.4 6.9-18.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 160 104 66.6 58.3-74.0 13 8.0 4.6-13.6 11 6.8 3.7-12.2 14 7.5 4.2-13.0 18 11.1 6.9-17.5
Some Post-H.S. 136 81 63.2 53.7-71.8 15 11.5 6.7-19.2 11 6.2 3.0-12.4 21 13.1 8.1-20.6 *** *** ***
College Graduate 176 123 72.5 64.2-79.6 22 11.7 7.2-18.5 13 8.4 4.5-15.2 12 4.6 2.5- 8.3 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 149 82 58.3 48.9-67.2 17 10.9 6.2-18.4 12 7.2 3.7-13.5 17 10.0 5.8-16.6 21 13.6 8.5-20.9
$50,000+ 207 148 71.5 63.9-78.1 23 10.8 7.0-16.4 11 4.6 2.3- 8.9 20 9.8 6.0-15.7 *** *** ***
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 113 76 70.3 59.8-78.9 *** *** *** 11 10.3 5.4-19.0 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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