Table 16_4_7-1d

2009 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 16_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, 2006
		Total		Less than high school		High school graduate		At least some college
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		72.8	0.7	68.9	1.7	74.5	1.3	73.0	1.0
Age	18–44	64.0	1.2	54.7	3.2	64.1	2.4	66.1	1.6
	45–64	73.2	1.0	67.8	2.5	75.4	1.9	73.2	1.3
	65 and over	85.2	1.0	84.9	2.0	84.2	1.8	85.9	1.6
Gender	Male	73.0	1.1	66.6	2.5	72.8	2.1	74.6	1.4
Gender	Female	72.7	0.9	70.7	1.8	75.8	1.5	71.6	1.2
Race	White, single race	74.6	0.7	70.3	1.8	76.4	1.3	74.7	0.9
	Black, single race	68.6	2.0	69.5	3.9	66.7	3.7	69.4	2.6
	Asian, single race	47.8	5.4	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	50.5	6.5
	NHOPI, single race	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	AI/AN, single race	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Multiple races	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ethnicity	Non-Hispanic, all races	74.0	0.8	71.1	1.9	75.8	1.4	73.8	1.0
	Non-Hispanic, White	76.2	0.7	73.5	2.1	78.2	1.4	75.8	1.0
	Non-Hispanic, Black	68.3	2.1	69.6	4.0	66.0	3.8	69.3	2.7
	Hispanic, all races	60.0	2.1	61.8	3.1	61.0	3.5	57.2	3.4
Family income^b	Negative/poor	62.1	2.1	64.0	3.2	65.4	3.6	56.8	3.8
	Near poor/low	67.0	1.6	65.2	2.8	72.3	2.5	63.2	2.8
	Middle	72.1	1.4	69.8	2.9	73.4	2.2	72.0	2.1
	High	77.0	1.0	80.5	3.6	79.3	1.8	76.1	1.2
Employment status, ages 18–64	Employed	69.9	1.0	59.5	2.9	71.9	1.8	70.5	1.2
Employment status, ages 18–64	Not employed	65.8	1.4	61.9	3.3	67.8	2.7	66.5	2.2
Health insurance, ages 18–64	Any private	73.1	0.9	73.2	2.7	76.7	1.6	71.9	1.2
	Public only	55.3	2.3	57.4	3.5	60.1	4.0	46.5	4.5
	Uninsured	44.4	2.6	37.0	4.8	43.0	5.3	52.5	4.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	87.6	1.9	88.0	3.0	86.4	3.1	88.7	3.4
	Medicare and private	86.3	1.2	86.8	3.0	84.4	2.3	87.3	1.8
	Medicare and other public	72.5	3.7	78.8	4.1	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Residence location^c	Metropolitan	72.8	0.8	70.1	1.9	74.2	1.4	72.9	1.1
	Large central metro	66.7	1.4	64.7	2.8	67.8	2.3	66.8	1.9
	Large fringe metro	75.4	1.4	72.9	3.5	75.9	2.8	75.6	1.7
	Medium metro	77.1	1.5	73.8	3.8	78.3	2.7	77.3	2.1
	Small metro	74.6	1.8	71.2	5.1	78.3	3.0	73.8	2.7
	Nonmetropolitan	72.5	1.5	64.0	3.7	75.7	2.9	73.5	2.0
	Micropolitan	71.7	1.9	63.6	4.6	73.8	3.7	73.0	2.8
	Noncore	74.2	2.8	64.7	7.0	80.0	3.3	74.3	3.5
Language spoken most often at home	English	74.3	0.7	71.3	1.9	76.0	1.3	74.1	1.0
Language spoken most often at home	Other	51.2	2.8	57.8	3.4	45.7	4.4	47.5	4.9
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	74.6	0.8	69.9	2.1	76.7	1.4	74.5	1.0
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	66.3	1.4	67.4	2.6	68.3	2.5	63.9	2.2
Activity limitations^c	Basic activities	73.4	1.4	71.6	2.6	75.2	2.3	73.0	2.2
	Complex activities	66.1	1.9	66.5	3.2	67.5	2.9	64.8	3.2
	Neither basic nor complex activities	73.1	0.8	67.8	2.1	75.1	1.4	73.3	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, 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.

DSU - 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 March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 16_4_7-1d: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/16_facilitators_barriers/T16_4_7-1d.html