Table 6_3_3-1

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 6_3_3.1
Children ages 19–35 months who received 3 doses of polio vaccine, United States, 2001 and 2007
		2007		2001
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		92.6	0.4	89.4	0.3
Race^a	AI/AN only	96.4	1.5	87.9	3.3
	Asian only	94.0	1.7	89.9	1.9
	NHOPI only	91.4	3.4	86.7	5.0
	Black only	91.3	1.2	85.9	0.9
	White only	92.8	0.4	90.2	0.4
	Multiple races	91.2	2.1	87.7	1.7
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	93.0	0.8	90.7	0.7
	Non-Hispanic, all races	92.5	0.4	89.0	0.4
	Non-Hispanic, Black	91.1	1.1	85.2	1.0
	Non-Hispanic, White	92.6	0.4	90.1	0.4
Gender	Male	92.5	0.5	89.3	0.5
Gender	Female	92.7	0.5	89.6	0.5
Family income^b	Negative/poor	92.2	0.7	87.4	0.9
	Near poor/low	91.1	0.9	88.5	0.7
	Middle	92.7	0.7	89.6	0.6
	High	94.3	0.8	92.3	0.6

^a Race categories have been changed since 2001. Data for 2001 and later years may not be comparable to data from previous years.

^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.

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

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Immunization Survey.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 6_3_3-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/6_maternalchildhealth/T6_3_3-1.html