Figure 2.3.
Age-sex-adjusted percent of persons of all ages who had a usual place to go
for medical care, by race/ethnicity: United States, January-June 2002
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NOTES: The usual place to go
for medical care does not include a hospital emergency room. The analysis
excluded 132 persons with unknown usual place to go for medical care.
DATA SOURCE: Based on
data collected from January through June in the Sample Adult and Sample
Child Core components of the 2002 National Health Interview Survey.
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After adjusting for age and sex, the percent of
persons with a usual place to go for medical care was 76.6% for Hispanic
persons, 90.1% for white non-Hispanic persons, and 86.9% for black non-Hispanic
persons.
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Hispanic persons were less likely than white
non-Hispanic and black non-Hispanic persons to have a usual place to go for
medical care.
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