National Healthcare Disparities Report 2005: Chapter 3 (continued)

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Table 3.1b. Socioeconomic Differences in Facilitators and Barriers to Health Care

Core Report Measure	Income Differenceⁱ			Educational Differenceⁱⁱ		Insurance Differenceⁱⁱⁱ
	<100%	100-199%	200-399%	<HS	HS Grad	Uninsured
Health Insurance Coverage
Persons under 65 with health insurance^iv	↓	↓	↓	↓	↓
Persons uninsured all year^v	↓	↓	↓	↓	↓
Usual Source of Care
Persons who have a specific source of ongoing care^iv	↓	↓	↓	↓	↓	↓
Persons who have a usual primary care provider^v	↓	↓	↓	↓	=	↓
Patient Perceptions of Need
Families that experience difficulties or delays in obtaining health care or do not receive needed care^v	↓	↓	↓	↓	=	↓
Families that experience difficulties or delays due to financial or insurance reasons^v	↓	↓	↓	↓	↓	↓
Patient-Provider Communication
Adults whose health providers sometimes or never listened carefully, explained things, showed respect, and spent enough time with them^v	↓	↓	↓	↓	↓	↓
Children whose health providers sometimes or never listened carefully, explained things, showed respect, and spent enough time with them^v	↓	↓	↓			↓

ⁱ Compared with persons with family incomes 400% of Federal poverty thresholds or above.
ⁱⁱ Compared with persons with any college education.
ⁱⁱⁱ Compared with persons under 65 with any private health insurance.
^iv Source: National Health Interview Survey, 2003.
^v Source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2002.
Key: HS = high school.

Key to Symbols Used in Access to Health Care Tables:

= Group and comparison group have about same access to health care.

↑ Group has better access to health care than the comparison group.

↓ Group has worse access to health care than the comparison group.

Blank cell: Reliable estimate for group could not be made.

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