{"id":7024,"date":"2020-10-30T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2020-10-30T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:30:23","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-who-had-an-unmet-mental-health-care-need-because-of-cost-in-the-past-12-months-by-age-group-and-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/10\/30\/7024\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18 Years or Older Who Had an Unmet Mental Health Care Need Because of Cost in the Past 12 Months by Age Group and Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container d-flex flex-wrap body-wrapper bg-white\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col content content-fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"syndicate\">\n<div class=\"d-flex flex-wrap d-md-block\">\n<div class=\"order-4 w-100\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6943a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6943a8-F.gif\" width=\"439\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, 5.3% of adults aged 18 years or older had an unmet mental health care need because of cost in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Women (7.2%) were more likely than men (3.3%) to have an unmet mental health care need because of cost, regardless of age group.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of men with an unmet mental health care need decreased with age, from 5.1% among those aged 18\u201344 years to 0.8% among those aged 65 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the percentage among women decreased with age, from 10.3% among those aged 18\u201344 years to 2.1% among those aged 65 years or older.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2019. <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\/69\/wr\/mm6943a8.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6943a8.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, 5.3% of adults aged 18 years or older had an unmet mental health care need because of cost in the past 12 months. Women (7.2%) were more likely than men (3.3%) to have an unmet mental health care need because of cost, regardless of age group. The percentage of men with an unmet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4008,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024"}],"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=7024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}