{"id":5519,"date":"2021-03-05T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2021-03-05T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:00:29","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-in-fair-or-poor-health-by-age-group-and-race-and-ethnicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/03\/05\/5519\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults in Fair or Poor Health, by Age Group and Race and Ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7009a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/figures\/mm7009a5-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the percentage of adults in fair or poor health increased by age (7.8% for those aged 18\u201339 years, 17.2% for those 40\u201364 years, and 25.1% for those \u226565 years) and for each racial\/ethnic group shown.<\/p>\n<p>Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black adults were most likely to be in fair or poor health in each age group.<\/p>\n<p>Among persons aged 18\u201339 and 40\u201364 years, non-Hispanic Asian adults were least likely to be in fair or poor health.<\/p>\n<p>Among persons aged \u226565 years, non-Hispanic Asian and non-Hispanic White adults were least likely to be in fair or poor health.<\/p>\n<p>Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black adults aged \u226565 years had the highest percentages of fair or poor health (40.3% and 35.5%, respectively), and non-Hispanic Asian adults aged 18\u201339 years had the lowest percentage of fair or poor health (4.1%).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2019 data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, the percentage of adults in fair or poor health increased by age (7.8% for those aged 18\u201339 years, 17.2% for those 40\u201364 years, and 25.1% for those \u226565 years) and for each racial\/ethnic group shown. Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black adults were most likely to be in fair or poor health in each age<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519"}],"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=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}