T6_4_12_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 6_4_12.2b
Children ages 2-17 for whom a health provider gave advice within the past 2 years about using a helmet when riding a bicycle or motorcycle, by ethnicity,^a United States, 2008
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		31.3	1.1	31.1	1.3	32.3	1.6	27.3	1.8	31.9	1.4
Age	2-5	33.1	1.6	32.4	1.9	33.1	2.5	29.5	3.1	35.1	2.6
Age	6-17	30.7	1.1	30.7	1.3	32.1	1.6	26.6	1.9	30.7	1.5
Gender	Male	33.3	1.1	33.6	1.3	35.0	1.6	30.3	1.9	32.3	1.7
Gender	Female	29.2	1.4	28.5	1.7	29.5	2.0	24.2	2.4	31.6	1.7
Family income^b	Negative/poor	29.6	2.0	27.2	2.6	24.4	4.1	28.0	3.0	34.1	2.5
	Near poor/low	26.1	1.5	24.8	1.9	24.0	2.5	25.3	3.5	28.9	2.2
	Middle	29.4	1.8	28.4	2.1	30.1	2.5	23.8	3.1	34.3	3.4
	High	39.3	2.3	40.4	2.5	41.8	2.8	35.5	6.4	29.3	4.4
Health insurance	Any private	33.4	1.5	33.4	1.7	34.7	2.0	30.1	3.0	33.3	2.6
	Public only	29.9	1.6	28.1	2.0	28.3	3.0	25.5	2.3	32.9	2.4
	Uninsured	20.5	2.2	19.3	2.8	17.8	3.7	DSU	DSU	23.1	3.8
Residence location^c	Metropolitan	32.9	1.2	32.9	1.4	34.5	1.7	28.0	1.8	32.9	1.4
	Large central metro	31.6	1.5	32.3	2.0	33.1	3.3	31.7	3.3	30.4	2.0
	Large fringe metro	36.5	2.3	36.0	2.5	38.6	2.9	25.8	4.0	39.4	3.5
	Medium metro	31.6	2.6	31.0	3.0	33.0	3.8	23.2	3.0	33.7	3.1
	Small metro	29.6	4.0	29.4	4.2	29.1	4.9	29.2	4.6	30.9	6.1
	Nonmetropolitan	23.0	2.8	23.3	3.1	24.2	3.5	21.2	5.6	20.5	5.2
	Micropolitan	22.6	3.6	23.3	3.8	23.7	4.2	DSU	DSU	14.7	2.8
	Noncore	23.5	4.0	23.2	4.6	25.3	5.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Language spoken most often at home	English	31.8	1.2	31.6	1.3	32.6	1.6	27.3	1.8	33.0	2.4
Language spoken most often at home	Other	28.8	1.6	22.4	3.4	23.5	6.0	DSU	DSU	31.1	1.8
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	31.3	1.1	31.1	1.3	32.3	1.6	27.5	1.8	32.0	1.4
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	30.2	5.0	30.5	6.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
CSHCN^d	Yes	33.3	1.8	33.2	1.9	34.4	2.3	27.4	3.3	33.8	3.9
CSHCN^d	No	30.7	1.1	30.4	1.3	31.6	1.7	27.3	1.9	31.8	1.4
U.S. born	Yes	31.9	1.1	31.5	1.3	32.6	1.6	27.1	1.9	33.5	1.6
U.S. born	No	18.7	2.6	18.5	4.5	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	18.8	2.9

^a. Denominator includes children who made an appointment for routine health care in the last 12 months, excluding missing data.

^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.

^c. For more information, see the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey entry in Appendix B: Detailed Methods.

^d. CSHCN: Children with special health care needs. For details, refer to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey documentation for the 2008 Full Year Consolidated Data File at http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files_detail.jsp?cboPufNumber=HC-121.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T6_4_12_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/nhqrdr11/6_maternalchildhealth/T6_4_12_2b.html