Table 1_3_1_1_2b

2011 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 1_3_1.1_2b
Men and women ages 50-75 who report that they had a blood stool test in the past year, sigmoidoscopy in the past 5 years and blood stool test in the past 3 years, or a colonoscopy in the past 10 years,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2008
				Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		52.2	0.7	53.9	0.8	55.2	0.8	48.7	1.9	35.0	2.0
Age	50-64	48.3	0.9	50.0	0.9	51.5	1.0	44.3	2.3	31.4	2.3
Age	65-75	60.5	1.1	61.9	1.2	63.0	1.3	57.8	3.3	42.5	3.7
Gender	Female	52.3	0.9	53.7	1.0	54.8	1.1	51.8	2.6	36.5	2.7
Gender	Male	52.3	1.0	54.1	1.1	55.8	1.2	44.8	2.8	33.6	2.9
Health insurance,^b ages 50-64	Private	53.9	1.0	54.8	1.0	55.9	1.1	48.7	3.3	41.1	3.5
	Public	46.3	2.0	47.3	2.2	49.8	2.8	45.6	4.3	38.6	5.4
	Uninsured	18.8	2.1	21.2	2.5	21.1	3.0	23.6	4.7	9.7	2.7
Health insurance, ages 65-75	All persons ages 65-75	60.5	1.1	61.9	1.2	63.0	1.3	57.8	3.3	42.5	3.7
	Medicare and private	66.5	1.5	66.5	1.5	66.6	1.6	69.6	5.0	65.0	7.1
	Medicare and public	59.5	3.0	64.6	3.2	69.7	3.9	51.3	6.5	30.4	6.0
	Medicare only	50.3	2.2	51.5	2.4	52.0	2.7	51.0	5.9	40.8	5.4
Family income^c	Negative/poor	34.5	2.2	37.8	2.5	41.6	3.0	35.0	4.3	21.3	3.4
	Near poor/low	42.0	1.7	44.5	1.9	45.1	2.4	46.5	4.0	28.6	3.5
	Middle	49.6	1.5	50.5	1.6	50.9	1.7	49.9	4.2	40.2	3.8
	High	60.8	1.1	61.4	1.1	62.0	1.2	59.6	3.6	46.8	4.1
Education	Less than high school	35.4	1.7	38.7	2.0	39.9	2.5	39.5	4.1	25.8	2.7
	High school graduate	48.9	1.3	49.6	1.4	51.0	1.5	42.9	3.3	39.9	4.5
	At least some college	58.8	0.9	59.5	0.9	60.4	1.0	58.8	2.6	46.0	3.6
Location of residence^d	Metropolitan	53.2	0.8	55.1	0.9	56.8	1.0	49.5	2.1	36.0	2.1
	Large central metro	47.0	1.5	49.5	1.7	52.5	2.1	43.9	3.0	34.1	2.8
	Large fringe metro	56.2	1.5	57.3	1.5	57.2	1.7	56.8	3.9	39.4	5.5
	Medium metro	56.2	1.6	58.0	1.6	59.5	1.7	53.7	4.5	36.2	4.4
	Small metro	54.6	2.1	55.9	2.2	57.7	2.4	47.2	6.5	39.2	7.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	50.2	2.4	50.8	2.4	51.2	2.5	44.5	5.8	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	46.6	2.1	47.8	2.2	48.7	2.4	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Activity limitations^d	Basic activities	53.1	1.4	54.7	1.5	55.8	1.7	49.7	3.2	36.7	3.9
	Complex activities	51.5	1.9	53.2	2.0	55.4	2.3	45.5	4.5	35.0	5.0
	Neither basic nor complex activities	52.6	0.9	54.3	0.9	55.6	1.0	49.3	2.4	34.6	2.4

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

^b. A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private" category only.

^c. Negative/poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line for a given household size and composition; 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.

^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: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of March 2012

Internet Citation: Table 1_3_1_1_2b: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/1_cancer/T1_3_1_1_2b.html