{"id":7942,"date":"2026-07-23T19:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7942"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:31:18","slug":"quickstats-health-center-visit-rates-by-age-and-sex-united-states-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2026\/07\/23\/7942\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Health Center Visit Rates by Age and Sex \u2014 United States, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/07\/mm7528a3-F_Health_Visits.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7943 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/07\/mm7528a3-F_Health_Visits.gif\" alt=\"Health Center Visit Rates by Age and Sex \u2014 United States, 2024\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2024, visit rates to health centers were similar among girls (318.0 per 1,000 population) and boys (327.7) aged 0\u201317 years. However, visit rates were significantly higher among women aged 18\u201334 years (484.4) and aged 35\u201354 years (516.6) compared with men in the same age groups (176.5 and 271.5, respectively). The observed difference by sex was not statistically significant among adults aged \u226555 years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Supplementary Table:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/257653#tabs-3\">https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/257653#tabs-3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Health Center Component, 2024.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/namcs\/about\/index.html\">National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reported by:<\/b>\u00a0Loredana Santo, MD,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:lsanto@cdc.gov\">lsanto@cdc.gov<\/a>; Zachary Peters, MPH; Jill J. Ashman, PhD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, visit rates to health centers were similar among girls (318.0 per 1,000 population) and boys (327.7) aged 0\u201317 years. However, visit rates were significantly higher among women aged 18\u201334 years (484.4) and aged 35\u201354 years (516.6) compared with men in the same age groups (176.5 and 271.5, respectively). The observed difference by sex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4008,63683,53752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-national-ambulatory-medical-care-survey","category-quickstats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7944,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions\/7944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}