National Healthcare Disparities Report 2005

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Table 3.1a. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Facilitators and Barriers to Health Care

Core Report Measure	Racial Differenceⁱ					Ethnic Differenceⁱⁱ
	Black	Asianⁱⁱⁱ	NHOPIⁱⁱⁱ	AI/AN	>1 Race	Hispanic
Health Insurance Coverage
Persons under 65 with health insurance^iv	↓	=	=	↓	=	↓
Persons uninsured all year^v	=	=		↓	=	↓
Usual Source of Care
Persons who have a specific source of ongoing care^iv	↓	↓		=	=	↓
Persons who have a usual primary care provider^v	↓	↓	=	=	=	↓
Patient Perceptions of Need
Families that experience difficulties or delays in obtaining health care or do not receive needed care^v	=	↑		=	↓	=
Families that experience difficulties or delays in obtaining health care due to financial or insurance reasons^v	↓					↓
Patient-Provider Communication
Adults whose health providers sometimes or never listened carefully, explained things, showed respect, and spent enough time with them^v	=	↓		↓	=	↓
Children whose health providers sometimes or never listened carefully, explained things, showed respect, and spent enough time with them^v	=	=			=	↓

ⁱ Compared with Whites.

ⁱⁱ Compared with non-Hispanic Whites.

ⁱⁱⁱ Findings are presented separately for Asians and NHOPI whenever possible. However, some data sources collected data for Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) as a single population; in these cases, the Asian and NHOPI cells are merged into a single cell representing APIs.

^iv Source: National Health Interview Survey, 2003.

^v Source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2002.

Key: NHOPI = Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; AI/AN = American Indian or Alaska Native.

Key to Symbols Used in Access to Health Care Tables:

= Group and comparison group have about same access to health care.

↑ Group has better access to health care than the comparison group.

↓ Group has worse access to health care than the comparison group.

Blank cell: Reliable estimate for group could not be made.

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