Table 14_4_7-1d

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 14_4_7.1d
Adults who did not have problems seeing a specialist they needed to see in the last 12 months, by education,^a United States, 2005
Population group		Total		Less than high school		High school graduate		At least some college
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		72.2	0.6	66.6	1.6	74.1	1.1	72.8	0.9
Age	18–44	65.1	1.1	52.7	3.1	66.4	2.3	67.6	1.5
	45–64	72.1	1.2	63.7	3.0	72.5	1.8	73.5	1.5
	65 and over	82.6	1.0	81.5	2.0	85.3	1.7	81.3	1.7
Gender	Male	72.4	1.0	66.6	2.5	73.7	1.6	73.4	1.3
Gender	Female	72.1	0.7	66.7	2.2	74.4	1.4	72.4	1.1
Race	White, single race	73.8	0.7	66.5	1.7	76.8	1.2	74.1	1.0
	Black, single race	64.9	2.1	69.6	3.6	57.2	4.3	67.1	3.0
	Asian, single race	55.3	4.3	*	*	*	*	60.2	4.9
	NHOPI, single race	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	AI/AN, single race	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Multiple races	68.1	5.9	*	*	*	*	*	*
Ethnicity	Non-Hispanic, all races	73.5	0.6	70.4	1.6	75.0	1.1	73.4	0.9
	Non-Hispanic, White	75.3	0.7	71.1	1.8	78.1	1.2	74.8	1.0
	Non-Hispanic, Black	64.9	2.1	70.0	3.7	57.0	4.3	67.3	3.0
	Hispanic	59.4	1.9	54.8	3.2	63.0	4.2	62.7	3.6
Family income^b	Negative/poor	56.8	2.0	56.4	3.0	56.1	4.1	58.1	4.3
	Near poor/low	68.9	1.6	63.3	2.9	75.1	2.6	67.6	2.8
	Middle	71.8	1.2	72.3	2.9	75.6	2.0	68.8	1.9
	High	76.7	0.9	76.3	3.4	77.2	1.7	76.6	1.0
Employment status, ages 18–64	Employed	69.8	0.9	57.3	3.1	71.3	1.6	70.9	1.1
Employment status, ages 18–64	Not employed	65.9	1.5	58.4	2.9	66.5	2.4	69.5	2.3
Health insurance, ages 18–64	Any private	72.5	0.9	69.0	3.1	73.4	1.5	72.6	1.1
	Public only	55.2	2.3	52.8	3.5	62.4	4.0	50.7	4.4
	Uninsured	51.3	2.6	39.3	4.4	51.7	5.4	60.7	4.3
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	80.5	2.1	80.8	4.2	85.2	3.4	76.1	3.8
	Medicare and private	85.2	1.2	84.6	2.9	86.4	2.0	84.7	1.9
	Medicare and other public	72.2	3.9	75.7	4.5	*	*	*	*
Residence location^c	Metropolitan	71.5	0.7	65.7	1.9	73.2	1.2	72.3	1.0
	Large central metro	68.0	1.3	61.4	3.0	69.6	2.3	69.2	1.9
	Large fringe metro	72.2	1.3	66.7	3.6	71.2	2.3	73.9	1.8
	Medium metro	74.5	1.2	68.0	3.3	78.9	2.2	73.9	1.9
	Small metro	74.1	2.1	73.2	4.4	74.1	3.6	74.3	2.7
	Nonmetropolitan	76.0	1.5	71.1	2.5	78.3	2.4	76.0	2.3
	Micropolitan	75.2	1.7	73.0	3.6	76.6	2.8	74.8	2.6
	Noncore	77.6	2.8	68.2	4.0	81.8	4.0	78.7	4.4
Language spoken most often at home	English	73.6	0.7	69.6	1.6	75.4	1.1	73.5	1.0
Language spoken most often at home	Other	54.5	2.7	55.0	3.6	49.8	5.3	56.7	4.4
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	74.5	0.7	68.9	2.0	76.5	1.3	74.6	1.0
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	63.9	1.3	63.0	2.8	67.0	2.4	61.8	2.3
Activity limitations^c	Basic activities	70.7	1.2	69.6	2.4	72.1	2.4	70.2	1.9
	Complex activities	65.0	1.6	63.1	2.9	66.0	3.1	65.5	2.7
	Neither basic nor complex activities	73.1	0.7	65.5	2.2	75.2	1.3	73.5	1.0

^a Less than high school refers to fewer than 12 years of education; high school graduate, 12 years of education; and at least some college, more than 12 years of education.

^b Negative/poor refers to household incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, over the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

^c For more information, see the MEPS entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

* - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

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

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 14_4_7-1d: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/14_facilitators_barrierstocare/T14_4_7-1d.html