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Adults Unable to Afford to See a Doctor
| Value: |
13.5 percent |
Measurement
Period: |
2011 |
| Location: |
County : Montgomery |
| Comparison: |
MD Counties |
| Categories: |
Health / Access to Health Services
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What is this Indicator?
This indicator shows the percentage of adults that report having a time in the past 12 months when they were unable to afford to see a doctor. |
| Why this is important: People who are unable to afford to see a doctor may not receive the proper medical services when they need them. This can lead to missed diagnoses, untreated conditions, and adverse health outcomes. People who cannot afford to see a doctor are less likely to get routine checkups and screenings. When they become ill, they generally delay seeking treatment until the condition is more advanced and therefore more difficult and costly to treat. Maintaining regular contact with a health care provider is especially difficult for low-income people, who are less likely to have health insurance. This often results in emergency room visits, which raises overall costs and lessens the continuity of care. |
| Technical Note: The distribution is based on data from 24 Maryland counties and county equivalents. |
| Source: Maryland Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System |
| URL of Source: http://www.marylandbrfss.org |
| Maintained By: Healthy Communities Institute |
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Time Series Data
percent
| 2011 | The BRFSS 2011 prevalence data should be considered a baseline year for data analysis and is not directly comparable to previous years of BRFSS data because of the changes in weighting methodology and the addition of the cell phone sampling frame. |
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Adults Unable to Afford to See a Doctor by Age
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Adults Unable to Afford to See a Doctor by Gender
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Adults Unable to Afford to See a Doctor by Race/Ethnicity
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