T9_1_8_2c

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 9_1_8.2c
Children ages 2-17 for whom a health provider gave advice within the past 2 years about the amount and kind of exercise, sports, or physically active hobbies they should have by family income,^a United States, 2008
		Total		Negative/poor		Near poor/low		Middle		High
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		33.5	1.1	32.0	1.9	31.4	1.7	31.9	1.8	38.6	2.0
Age	2-5	30.3	1.8	28.6	2.9	30.0	2.6	31.6	3.2	30.4	3.4
Age	6-17	34.6	1.2	33.5	2.0	31.9	1.9	32.0	1.9	41.0	2.3
Gender	Male	34.0	1.2	31.2	2.4	30.8	1.7	32.3	2.1	40.9	2.3
Gender	Female	33.0	1.4	32.9	2.1	32.0	2.3	31.5	2.1	36.2	2.5
Race	White, single race	33.2	1.2	28.8	2.4	30.3	2.0	32.2	2.0	39.1	2.2
	Black, single race	35.0	2.0	34.8	2.8	36.2	3.7	31.2	3.8	40.3	5.6
	Asian, single race	30.1	3.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	31.1	6.2	29.9	5.9
	NHOPI, single race	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	AI/AN, single race	32.0	8.2	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Multiple races	38.4	4.8	45.5	7.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ethnicity	Non-Hispanic, all races	32.8	1.3	28.8	2.4	30.1	2.3	30.7	2.0	39.1	2.2
	Non-Hispanic, White	32.2	1.5	19.9	3.5	27.9	3.0	30.8	2.3	40.0	2.4
	Non-Hispanic, Black	34.7	2.1	33.7	2.9	36.1	3.6	30.9	4.0	41.2	5.7
	Hispanic, all races	36.3	1.4	38.0	2.2	34.0	2.0	37.9	2.9	34.4	4.8
Health insurance	Any private	35.2	1.5	27.4	4.2	32.4	3.1	32.5	2.0	39.9	2.2
	Public only	33.0	1.5	33.9	2.1	32.6	2.2	32.3	3.4	DSU	DSU
	Uninsured	22.8	2.6	22.8	5.0	21.6	5.0	25.3	4.9	DSU	DSU
Residence location^b	Metropolitan	34.8	1.2	33.5	2.1	33.8	1.8	32.6	2.0	39.1	2.2
	Large central metro	38.4	1.7	38.9	2.3	36.1	2.7	37.8	3.3	41.5	3.7
	Large fringe metro	34.2	2.2	24.4	4.4	32.7	4.2	32.5	3.2	39.5	3.7
	Medium metro	33.7	2.6	36.0	4.5	33.7	3.5	29.0	4.2	37.5	4.5
	Small metro	28.5	3.4	27.2	5.7	27.8	6.2	27.0	4.5	DSU	DSU
	Nonmetropolitan	26.7	2.4	24.5	4.3	21.4	3.5	29.0	3.4	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan	26.4	3.1	29.2	5.3	17.2	3.9	30.4	5.4	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	27.2	4.0	DSU	DSU	30.7	6.1	27.0	5.0	DSU	DSU
Language spoken most often at home	English	33.5	1.2	32.0	2.2	29.9	2.1	31.4	1.9	39.2	2.1
Language spoken most often at home	Other	33.9	1.7	32.4	3.2	35.6	2.5	35.8	3.9	27.4	5.6
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	33.3	1.1	31.7	1.9	31.0	1.7	31.6	1.8	38.3	2.0
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	47.1	5.2	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
CSHCN^c	Yes	42.8	2.0	40.4	3.4	40.4	3.8	40.6	3.2	48.8	4.0
CSHCN^c	No	31.2	1.1	30.2	2.0	29.3	1.8	29.8	1.8	35.5	2.0
U.S. born	Yes	33.7	1.1	32.4	2.0	31.6	1.8	31.9	1.8	38.6	2.0
U.S. born	No	30.3	3.3	27.2	4.6	26.6	5.1	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU

^a. 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.

^b. �For more information, see the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) entry in Appendix B: Detailed Methods.

^c. CSHCN: children with special health care needs. See MEPS 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 for details.

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

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T9_1_8_2c: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/9_lifestylemodification/T9_1_8_2c.html