T16_3_2_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 16_3_2.2b
People with a specific source of ongoing care,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2009
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		85.5	0.3	87.1	0.3	87.9	0.3	84.5	0.6	76.9	0.8
Age	0-17	94.5	0.3	95.6	0.3	96.0	0.4	94.8	0.6	90.8	0.7
	18-44	74.1	0.6	76.6	0.6	77.4	0.7	73.9	1.3	62.9	1.3
	45-64	87.7	0.4	88.9	0.5	89.6	0.5	85.9	1.2	77.6	1.6
	65 and over	96.6	0.3	96.7	0.3	97.1	0.3	94.6	1.1	95.1	1.0
Gender	Female	89.2	0.3	90.3	0.3	91.1	0.4	88.0	0.7	82.9	0.8
Gender	Male	81.7	0.4	83.8	0.4	84.6	0.5	80.5	1.0	71.2	1.1
Health insurance,^b ages 0-64	Private	91.6	0.3	91.7	0.3	91.8	0.3	91.1	0.7	91.0	0.9
	Public	92.0	0.5	92.0	0.6	91.7	0.9	93.0	0.9	92.0	0.9
	Uninsured	47.7	0.9	49.6	1.1	50.5	1.3	48.0	2.2	43.6	1.4
Health insurance, age 65 and over	All persons 65 years and over	96.6	0.3	96.7	0.3	97.1	0.3	94.6	1.1	95.1	1.0
	Medicare and private	97.4	0.3	97.4	0.3	97.4	0.3	97.4	1.0	96.3	1.4
	Medicare and public	97.0	0.7	97.0	0.8	98.1	0.8	91.8	3.2	97.2	1.7
	Medicare only	96.0	0.6	95.9	0.6	96.1	0.7	95.4	1.3	96.4	1.1
Family income^c	Negative/poor	77.5	0.8	79.8	0.9	79.0	1.4	81.5	1.4	72.0	1.4
	Near poor/low	80.4	0.7	82.7	0.8	83.5	1.0	82.0	1.5	73.0	1.3
	Middle	85.6	0.5	86.6	0.5	87.1	0.6	84.4	1.3	79.4	1.2
	High	91.7	0.4	91.9	0.4	92.1	0.4	91.8	1.0	88.8	1.3
Education, age 25 and over	Less than high school	75.2	1.0	82.2	1.2	81.8	1.6	83.5	1.7	63.2	1.6
	High school graduate	83.0	0.6	84.9	0.7	86.2	0.7	78.7	1.8	70.1	1.9
	At least some college	87.5	0.4	87.9	0.4	88.8	0.5	84.9	1.1	82.1	1.3
Location of residence^c	Metropolitan	85.5	0.3	87.2	0.3	88.1	0.4	84.9	0.7	77.2	0.8
	Large central metro	83.4	0.5	85.1	0.6	85.9	0.8	84.7	1.0	78.7	0.9
	Large fringe metro	88.9	0.5	90.1	0.5	91.2	0.6	86.7	1.5	78.3	1.9
	Medium metro	85.0	0.7	87.1	0.6	87.6	0.7	83.8	1.5	72.9	1.7
	Small metro	84.7	1.2	85.4	1.1	86.0	1.3	83.2	2.5	77.7	4.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	84.4	1.0	86.0	0.9	86.4	1.1	79.5	1.9	69.3	4.1
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	87.3	1.0	88.3	1.0	88.1	1.0	87.1	3.1	79.8	2.9
Activity limitations,^d age 18 and over	Basic activities	90.7	0.5	91.2	0.6	91.8	0.6	88.2	1.4	85.3	2.0
	Complex activities	87.8	0.8	88.6	0.8	89.2	0.9	86.6	1.7	80.6	3.0
	Neither basic nor complex activities	80.8	0.4	83.2	0.4	84.4	0.5	78.4	1.0	67.2	1.2

^a. Estimates are not age adjusted.

^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; 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.

Key: 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: T16_3_2_2b: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/16_facilitators_barriers/T16_3_2_2b.html