Table 16_3_5-3c

2010 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_3_5.3c
People in fair or poor health with a specific source of ongoing care,^a by family income,^b United States, 2008
		Total		Negative/poor		Near poor/low		Middle		High
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		85.3	1.0	82.8	1.7	82.6	2.2	88.8	1.8	90.1	2.4
Age	0-17	93.8	1.8	93.5	2.6	90.3	4.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	18-44	74.9	2.1	73.6	3.3	70.8	4.3	78.4	4.0	80.6	5.7
	45-64	88.8	1.1	81.3	2.6	89.0	2.0	92.0	1.8	93.9	2.1
	65 and over	96.3	0.7	93.9	2.2	93.9	1.5	98.4	0.6	98.9	1.0
Race	AI/AN only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Asian only	80.1	7.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	NHOPI only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Black only	85.7	2.1	86.6	2.4	84.9	4.8	84.7	4.7	81.5	10.8
	White only	85.5	1.2	80.8	2.5	83.1	2.7	89.3	2.0	91.7	2.3
	Multiple races	75.8	7.2	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	76.8	2.6	74.1	4.3	79.0	4.4	81.6	4.7	DSU	DSU
	Non-Hispanic, all races	87.4	1.1	85.4	1.8	83.5	2.6	90.4	1.8	93.3	2.1
	Non-Hispanic, Black	85.5	2.1	86.5	2.5	84.4	4.9	84.6	4.7	81.5	10.8
	Non-Hispanic, White	88.2	1.4	84.1	2.8	84.6	3.3	91.7	1.9	94.7	1.9
Gender	Female	88.9	1.1	86.6	1.9	87.7	2.2	91.1	2.0	91.9	3.0
Gender	Male	80.8	1.8	77.7	2.9	76.2	3.8	85.8	2.7	87.8	4.0
Health insurance,^c ages 0-64	Private	92.3	1.4	91.1	4.2	88.3	3.5	93.5	1.8	93.4	2.3
	Public only	93.0	1.2	91.8	1.5	94.2	2.3	94.3	5.8	DSU	DSU
	Uninsured	55.2	3.6	48.5	5.9	58.5	5.9	63.6	7.5	DSU	DSU
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	98.0	0.6	DSU	DSU	96.4	1.8	98.7	0.8	98.2	1.8
	Medicare and public	95.9	1.4	95.5	2.2	94.6	3.2	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medicare only	95.1	1.3	89.0	5.8	93.2	2.1	98.8	1.2	DSU	DSU
Education, age 25 and over	Less than high school	79.0	2.4	77.2	3.0	77.5	4.9	81.6	5.6	DSU	DSU
	High school graduate	88.4	1.5	84.4	2.8	86.9	2.8	92.2	2.7	87.5	5.8
	At least some college	86.2	1.7	85.3	3.2	78.8	4.2	88.9	2.6	90.2	3.1
Location of residence^d	Metropolitan	85.5	1.1	82.4	1.9	81.8	2.6	89.5	1.9	91.6	2.3
	Large central metro	85.6	1.8	84.8	2.5	84.8	3.5	85.9	3.9	87.1	4.4
	Large fringe metro	85.4	2.9	88.6	2.9	70.9	8.5	87.9	4.0	91.6	4.6
	Medium metro	84.1	2.0	75.8	4.5	84.8	3.3	90.1	3.5	94.5	3.4
	Small metro	87.7	2.6	82.0	4.6	79.9	6.8	97.1	2.8	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	80.3	2.8	79.5	5.4	81.6	5.0	82.8	5.2	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	92.7	2.2	89.8	3.3	98.1	0.8	94.9	2.2	DSU	DSU
Activity limitations,^d age 18 and over	Basic activities	91.8	1.0	88.1	2.0	93.0	1.8	93.6	2.5	95.5	3.0
	Complex activities	87.6	1.5	84.4	2.3	88.3	2.9	90.1	3.7	88.5	5.6
	Neither basic nor complex activities	77.3	1.9	69.4	4.1	71.0	3.9	81.7	3.3	85.8	4.0

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population.� Age data and health insurance data for age 65 and over are unadjusted.

^b Negative or poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line for a given household size and composition; 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 A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private" category only.��

^d For more information, see the National Health Interview Survey 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: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 16_3_5-3c: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/16_facilitators_barriers/T16_3_5-3c.html