Table 16_4_8-1b

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_8.1b
Children without problems seeing a specialist they needed to see in the last 12 months, by ethnicity, United States, 2006
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		77.9	1.5	78.4	1.7	79.2	1.9	76.9	3.0	74.7	3.1
Age	0–5	80.0	2.6	81.2	2.9	81.7	3.4	DSU	DSU	73.6	6.4
Age	6–17	77.0	1.8	77.3	2.0	78.3	2.3	76.1	4.1	75.1	3.5
Gender	Male	78.4	1.9	79.7	2.2	82.1	2.4	73.2	4.0	71.6	4.6
Gender	Female	77.2	2.2	76.9	2.4	76.2	2.8	81.3	4.6	79.0	3.7
Family income^a	Negative/poor	69.5	3.2	70.2	3.8	DSU	DSU	73.6	5.3	67.2	6.4
	Near poor/low	78.3	3.2	78.3	3.8	77.1	5.1	DSU	DSU	78.2	5.8
	Middle	78.4	2.9	79.4	3.2	80.8	3.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	High	80.3	2.6	80.3	2.6	80.9	2.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Health insurance	Any private	80.5	1.8	80.5	1.9	80.9	2.1	DSU	DSU	80.6	4.4
	Public only	69.9	2.6	69.9	3.2	69.6	4.3	72.1	4.2	69.8	4.5
	Uninsured	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Residence location^b	Metropolitan	78.2	1.6	78.8	1.9	80.1	2.1	75.5	3.2	75.2	3.2
	Large central metro	75.4	2.6	75.0	3.2	76.6	4.3	71.8	5.0	76.6	3.8
	Large fringe metro	78.6	3.1	78.5	3.3	79.1	3.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medium metro	82.9	2.8	84.1	3.2	85.6	3.1	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Small metro	74.4	6.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Nonmetropolitan	75.4	4.6	76.1	4.8	74.7	5.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan	71.0	5.4	71.7	5.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Language spoken most often at home	English	78.6	1.6	78.6	1.7	79.4	1.9	76.4	3.1	79.4	3.8
Language spoken most often at home	Other	69.6	5.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	68.7	5.4
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	78.8	1.5	79.5	1.7	79.9	1.9	79.8	3.2	74.7	3.4
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	62.3	5.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
CSHCN	Yes	75.6	2.2	75.6	2.4	76.8	2.8	73.0	4.1	75.5	4.3
CSHCN	No	80.9	2.0	81.8	2.3	82.3	2.6	DSU	DSU	76.0	4.2

^a 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.

^b 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: CSHCN: children with special health care needs; 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_8-1b: 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_8-1b.html