Table 3 Access to medical and dental care and use of medical and dental services for US children 0-17 years old (N = 90,117) by race/ethnicity (2007 NSCH)
Mean or Proportion for each Racial/Ethnic Group | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Access or Use-of-Service measure | White N=61,377 | Latino N=11,523 | African-American N=8,873 | Asian/Pacific Islander N=2,771 | American Indian/Alaska Native N=1,244 | Multiracial N=4,329 | P |
Insurance coverage at time of survey (%) | <.0001 | ||||||
None | 6.1 | 18.9 | 8.8 | 5.0 | 13.0 | 6.4 | |
Public | 17.6 | 44.4 | 50.8 | 17.2 | 45.6 | 33.2 | |
Private | 75.8 | 35.9 | 38.9 | 76.0 | 39.7 | 60.0 | |
Insured, type unknown | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 0.5 | |
Sporadically insureda in past year (%) | 8.3 | 16.9 | 14.2 | 8.2 | 14.3 | 9.9 | <.0001 |
Has personal doctor or nurse (%) | 95.5 | 85.8 | 88.8 | 93.0 | 81.5 | 92.9 | <.0001 |
PCP never/sometimes spends enough time with child (%) | 11.9 | 37.8 | 30.5 | 27.6 | 29.6 | 15.0 | <.0001 |
Interpreter needed to speak with PCP (%) | 6.8 | 38.0 | 7.9 | 4.6 | 8.6 | 22.4 | <.0001 |
Received all needed medical care (%) | 96.9 | 95.7 | 95.2 | 98.1 | 94.4 | 95.1 | <.0001 |
Received all needed dental care (%) | 97.5 | 96.8 | 96.9 | 99.1 | 94.4 | 96.1 | <.0001 |
Any problem getting specialty care (%) | 18.6 | 30.9 | 33.6 | 26.3 | 39.8 | 26.9 | <.0001 |
No physician visit in last 12 months (%) | 11.5 | 14.1 | 8.5 | 11.9 | 11.9 | 10.6 | <.0001 |
No routine preventive dental visit in last 12 months (%) | 23.2 | 33.1 | 25.1 | 28.4 | 22.9 | 28.0 | .0001 |
Received specialty care (%) | 25.8 | 16.7 | 18.4 | 16.4 | 17.1 | 22.6 | <.0001 |
Received mental healthcare in past 12 months (%) | 9.1 | 6.1 | 7.9 | 2.7 | 12.2 | 10.1 | .0001 |