{"id":4431,"date":"2019-03-22T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2019-03-22T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:30:54","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-who-reported-that-they-needed-dental-care-during-the-past-12-months-but-didnt-get-it-because-they-couldnt-afford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2019\/03\/22\/4431\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Aged 18 Years or Older Who Reported That They Needed Dental Care During the Past 12 Months But Didn\u2019t Get It Because They Couldn\u2019t Afford It, by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6811a4.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/figures\/mm6811a4-F.gif\" width=\"449\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, more women (12.7%) than men (8.8%) reported that at some time during the past 12 months they needed dental care but didn\u2019t get it because they couldn\u2019t afford it.<\/p>\n<p>This pattern was consistent within each racial\/ethnic group: Hispanic, non-Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic black.<\/p>\n<p>Among both men and women, Hispanic adults were most likely to have unmet needs for dental care because they couldn\u2019t afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 17% of Hispanic women could not afford to meet their dental care needs, compared with 12.8% of non-Hispanic black women and 11.8% of non-Hispanic white women; 12.3% of Hispanic men had unmet dental care needs, compared with 8.6% of non-Hispanic black men and 8.3% of non-Hispanic white men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Tables of Summary Health Statistics, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tp-link-policy nonHtml noDecoration plugin\" href=\"https:\/\/ftp.cdc.gov\/pub\/Health_Statistics\/NCHS\/NHIS\/SHS\/2017_SHS_Table_A-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"tp-label\">https:\/\/ftp.cdc.gov\/pub\/Health_Statistics\/NCHS\/NHIS\/SHS\/2017_SHS_Table_A-19.pdf<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6811a4.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6811a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, more women (12.7%) than men (8.8%) reported that at some time during the past 12 months they needed dental care but didn\u2019t get it because they couldn\u2019t afford it. This pattern was consistent within each racial\/ethnic group: Hispanic, non-Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic black. Among both men and women, Hispanic adults were most likely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62269,53746,53752,53747],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}