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<h1>2012 National Healthcare Disparities Report</h1>
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<h4 class="figcaption"><a id="fig41" name="fig41"></a>Figure 4.1. Adults who needed care right away for an illness, injury, or condition in the last 12 months who sometimes or never got care as soon as wanted, by race and income, 2002-2009</h4><table border="1" cellspacing="0" padding="4" width="90%"><tr valign="top"><th scope="col">Race</th><th scope="col">2002</th><th scope="col">2003</th><th scope="col">2004</th><th scope="col">2005</th><th scope="col">2006</th><th scope="col">2007</th><th scope="col">2008</th><th scope="col">2009</th></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">White</td><td align="center">14.5</td><td align="center">13.4</td><td align="center">13.1</td><td align="center">13.4</td><td align="center">14.7</td><td align="center">13.1</td><td align="center">14</td><td align="center">13.4</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Black</td><td align="center">19</td><td align="center">18.4</td><td align="center">17.2</td><td align="center">20.9</td><td align="center">16.5</td><td align="center">17.4</td><td align="center">22.7</td><td align="center">20.4</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Asian</td><td align="center">22.7</td><td align="center">26.3</td><td align="center">26.7</td><td align="center">27.4</td><td align="center">21.3</td><td align="center">17.6</td><td align="center">26.3</td><td align="center">27.7</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">&gt;1 Race</td><td align="center">15.8</td><td align="center">&#160;</td><td align="center">18.4</td><td align="center">22.5</td><td align="center">19.8</td><td align="center">&#160;</td><td align="center">&#160;</td><td align="center">17.7</td></tr></table><p>&#160;</p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" padding="4" width="90%"><tr valign="top"><th scope="col">Income</th><th scope="col">2002</th><th scope="col">2003</th><th scope="col">2004</th><th scope="col">2005</th><th scope="col">2006</th><th scope="col">2007</th><th scope="col">2008</th><th scope="col">2009</th></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Poor</td><td align="center">22.8</td><td align="center">25.8</td><td align="center">25</td><td align="center">24.8</td><td align="center">23</td><td align="center">19.6</td><td align="center">24</td><td align="center">24.4</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Low Income</td><td align="center">20.3</td><td align="center">17.5</td><td align="center">15.6</td><td align="center">19.7</td><td align="center">20.3</td><td align="center">16.6</td><td align="center">19.7</td><td align="center">19.1</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Middle Income</td><td align="center">15.9</td><td align="center">13.3</td><td align="center">13.5</td><td align="center">14.3</td><td align="center">15.3</td><td align="center">15.4</td><td align="center">14.4</td><td align="center">14.5</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">High Income</td><td align="center">9.9</td><td align="center">9.7</td><td align="center">10.3</td><td align="center">10</td><td align="center">10.5</td><td align="center">9.8</td><td align="center">10.9</td><td align="center">9</td></tr></table><p><strong>Source:</strong> Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2002-2009.<br /><strong>Denominator:</strong> Civilian noninstitutionalized population age 18 and over.<br /><strong>Note:</strong> For this measure, lower rates are better. Data were insufficient for this analysis for multiple race in 2003, 2007, and 2008.</p><p><a href="/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhdr12/chap4.html#fig41">Return to Document</a></p><h4 class="figcaption"><a id="fig42" name="fig42"></a>Figure 4.2. Children who needed care right away for an illness, injury, or condition in the last 12 months who sometimes or never got care as soon as wanted, by ethnicity and language spoken at home, 2002-2009</h4><table border="1" cellspacing="0" padding="4" width="90%"><tr valign="top"><th scope="col">Ethnicity</th><th scope="col">2002</th><th scope="col">2003</th><th scope="col">2004</th><th scope="col">2005</th><th scope="col">2006</th><th scope="col">2007</th><th scope="col">2008</th><th scope="col">2009</th></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Non-Hispanic White</td><td align="center">6.7</td><td align="center">8.1</td><td align="center">7.2</td><td align="center">7.7</td><td align="center">6.5</td><td align="center">6.8</td><td align="center">4.3</td><td align="center">2.6</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Non-Hispanic Black</td><td align="center">7.2</td><td align="center">7.9</td><td align="center">5.0</td><td align="center">6.7</td><td align="center">9.1</td><td align="center">8.4</td><td align="center">6.5</td><td align="center">&#160;</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Hispanic</td><td align="center">10.6</td><td align="center">13.9</td><td align="center">10.5</td><td align="center">9.3</td><td align="center">6.7</td><td align="center">8.9</td><td align="center">10.0</td><td align="center">10.1</td></tr></table><p>&#160;</p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" padding="4" width="90%"><tr valign="top"><th scope="col">Language Spoken</th><th scope="col">2002</th><th scope="col">2003</th><th scope="col">2004</th><th scope="col">2005</th><th scope="col">2006</th><th scope="col">2007</th><th scope="col">2008</th><th scope="col">2009</th></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">English</td><td align="center">7.2</td><td align="center">8.5</td><td align="center">6.7</td><td align="center">7.8</td><td align="center">6.7</td><td align="center">7.6</td><td align="center">5.0</td><td align="center">3.9</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Other</td><td align="center">12.5</td><td align="center">15.9</td><td align="center">13.1</td><td align="center">12.0</td><td align="center">10.8</td><td align="center">11.6</td><td align="center">10.8</td><td align="center">9.5</td></tr></table><p><strong>Source:</strong> Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2002-2009.<br /><strong>Denominator:</strong> Civilian noninstitutionalized population under age 18.<br /><strong>Note:</strong> For this measure, lower rates are better. The 2009 data for non-Hispanic Blacks did not meet criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.</p><p><a href="/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhdr12/chap4.html#fig42">Return to Document</a></p><h4 class="figcaption"><a id="fig43" name="fig43"></a>Figure 4.3. Emergency department visits in which patient had to wait an hour or more by urgency, race, and insurance, 2009-2010</h4><table border="1" cellspacing="0" padding="4" width="90%"><tr valign="top"><th scope="col">Urgency</th><th scope="col">White</th><th scope="col">Black</th><th scope="col">Other</th></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Immediate / Emergent</td><td align="center">19.3</td><td align="center">28.6</td><td align="center">23.4</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Urgent</td><td align="center">28.3</td><td align="center">39.4</td><td align="center">32.4</td></tr></table><p>&#160;</p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" padding="4" width="90%"><tr valign="top"><th scope="col">Urgency</th><th scope="col">Private</th><th scope="col">Public</th><th scope="col">Uninsured</th></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Immediate / Emergent</td><td align="center">19.4</td><td align="center">24.1</td><td align="center">27</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Urgent</td><td align="center">29.7</td><td align="center">32.8</td><td align="center">34.7</td></tr></table><p><strong>Source:</strong> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), 2009-2010.<br /><strong>Denominator (Immediate or Emergent):</strong> Visits to U.S. emergency departments with triage assessments of immediate or emergent.<br /><strong>Denominator (Urgent):</strong> Visits to U.S. emergency departments with triage assessments of urgent.<br /><strong>Note:</strong> For this measure, lower rates are better. Race data were missing for 13.3% of total visits included in this chart. Missing race data were imputed. Standard errors were inflated as described at 2007 NHAMCS Microdata File Documentation, ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NHAMCS/. Insurance status is shown for patients under age 65 and classified based on all expected payment sources. Public insurance includes Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children&#39;s Health Insurance Program. Uninsured is defined as having &quot;only self-pay&quot; or &quot;no charge/charity&quot; as payment sources.</p><p><a href="/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhdr12/chap4.html#fig43">Return to Document</a></p><h4 class="figcaption"><a id="fig44" name="fig44"></a>Figure 4.4. Hospital patients with heart attack who received percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes, by race/ethnicity, 2005-2010</h4><table border="1" cellspacing="0" padding="4" width="90%"><tr valign="top"><th scope="col">Race/Ethnicity</th><th scope="col">2005</th><th scope="col">2006</th><th scope="col">2007</th><th scope="col">2008</th><th scope="col">2009</th><th scope="col">2010</th></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">White</td><td align="center">43.4</td><td align="center">55.1</td><td align="center">73</td><td align="center">82.1</td><td align="center">88.1</td><td align="center">91.7</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Black</td><td align="center">29.1</td><td align="center">42.2</td><td align="center">62.2</td><td align="center">74.3</td><td align="center">81.5</td><td align="center">86.3</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Hispanic</td><td align="center">33.8</td><td align="center">46.7</td><td align="center">66.4</td><td align="center">77.5</td><td align="center">85.1</td><td align="center">89</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">AI/AN</td><td align="center">43.2</td><td align="center">53.5</td><td align="center">66.2</td><td align="center">69.3</td><td align="center">84.7</td><td align="center">89.8</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Asian</td><td align="center">39.6</td><td align="center">49.8</td><td align="center">69.5</td><td align="center">80.9</td><td align="center">87.2</td><td align="center">91.3</td></tr></table><p><strong>Key:</strong> AI/AN = American Indian or Alaska Native.<br /><strong>Source:</strong> Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program, 2005-2010.<br /><strong>Denominator:</strong> Patients hospitalized with a principal diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction who were appropriate candidates for percutaneous coronary intervention.</p><p><a href="/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhdr12/chap4.html#fig44">Return to Document</a></p><h4 class="figcaption"><a id="fig45" name="fig45"></a>Figure 4.5. Hospital patients with heart attack who received fibrinolytic medication within 30 minutes, by race/ethnicity, 2005-2010</h4><table border="1" cellspacing="0" padding="4" width="90%"><tr valign="top"><th scope="col">Race/Ethnicity</th><th scope="col">2005</th><th scope="col">2006</th><th scope="col">2007</th><th scope="col">2008</th><th scope="col">2009</th><th scope="col">2010</th></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">White</td><td align="center">38.7</td><td align="center">43.6</td><td align="center">51.8</td><td align="center">51.0</td><td align="center">55.7</td><td align="center">63.8</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Black</td><td align="center">27.7</td><td align="center">32.6</td><td align="center">44.5</td><td align="center">37.8</td><td align="center">46.8</td><td align="center">53</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Hispanic</td><td align="center">36.8</td><td align="center">37.8</td><td align="center">43.2</td><td align="center">47.6</td><td align="center">52.8</td><td align="center">47.3</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td scope="row">Asian</td><td align="center">43.9</td><td align="center">45.5</td><td align="center">55.5</td><td align="center">48.2</td><td align="center">58.6</td><td align="center">67.3</td></tr></table><p><strong>Source:</strong> Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program, 2005-2010.<br /><strong>Denominator:</strong> Patients hospitalized with a principal diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction who were appropriate candidates for fibrinolytic medication.</p><p><a href="/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhdr12/chap4.html#fig45">Return to Document</a></p> </div>
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<span>Internet Citation: 2012 National Healthcare Disparities Report: Chapter 4, Text Descriptions for Figures.
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