Frequency of visits to a health care provider who shared culture U.S. 2017

Roughly 70 percent of U.S. adults who thought it was at least slightly important to have a health care provider who shared or understood their culture always or most of the time visited a health care provider who shared their culture. The statistic illustrates the percentage of adults who frequently saw a health care provider who shared their culture in the U.S. in 2017, by ethnicity.

Percentage of adults who frequently saw a health care provider who shared their culture in the U.S. in 2017, by ethnicity*

Characteristic	None of the time	Some of the time	Always or most of the time
White, non-Hispanic	4%	17.6%	78.4%
Black, non-Hispanic	12.8%	27.6%	59.6%
Other, non-Hispanic	15.2%	26%	58.8%
Hispanic	13.7%	27.2%	59.1%
Total	8.2%	21.7%	70.2%

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Release date

October 2019

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2017

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

Among those who who thought it was at least slightly important to have a health care provider who shared or understood their culture

Supplementary notes

Estimates are based on household interviews of a sample of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. Culture was defined as “race or ethnicity or gender or religion or beliefs or native language.” Adults categorized as Hispanic may be of any race or combination of races. Adults categorized as non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black indicated one race only. Estimates for non-Hispanic persons of races other than white only or black only, or of multiple races, are combined into the non-Hispanic other category.

* Among those who who thought it was at least slightly important to have a health care provider who shared or understood their culture.

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