{"id":4728,"date":"2019-12-06T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:30:50","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-64-years-who-had-seen-or-talked-to-a-health-care-professional-in-the-past-12-months-by-race-ethnicity-national-health-interview-survey-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2019\/12\/06\/4728\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18\u201364 Years Who Had Seen or Talked to a Health Care Professional in the Past 12 Months by Race\/Ethnicity \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, 2012\u20132013 and 2017\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6848a3.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/figures\/mm6848a3-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of adults aged 18\u201364 years who had seen or talked to a health care professional in the past 12 months increased from 79.3% in 2012\u20132013 to 82.1% in 2017\u20132018.<\/p>\n<p>There was an increase in the percentage of Hispanic (67.0% to 73.6%), non-Hispanic white (82.8% to 84.9%), non-Hispanic black (80.0% to 83.2%), and non-Hispanic Asian (75.8% to 78.8%) adults who had seen or talked to a health care professional in the past 12 months between those two periods.<\/p>\n<p>During 2012\u20132013 as well as 2017\u20132018, non-Hispanic white adults were the most likely and Hispanic adults were the least likely to have seen or talked to a health care professional in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Health Interview Survey, 2012, 2013, 2017, and 2018 data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6848a3.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6848a3.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of adults aged 18\u201364 years who had seen or talked to a health care professional in the past 12 months increased from 79.3% in 2012\u20132013 to 82.1% in 2017\u20132018. There was an increase in the percentage of Hispanic (67.0% to 73.6%), non-Hispanic white (82.8% to 84.9%), non-Hispanic black (80.0% to 83.2%), and non-Hispanic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746,53752,53747],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728"}],"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=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}