21-10.
Increase the proportion of children and adults who use the oral health care system each year.
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21-10. | |
Increase the proportion of children and adults who use the oral health care system each year. |
Target: 56 percent.
Baseline: 44 percent of persons aged 2 years and older in 1996 visited a dentist during the previous year.
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), AHRQ.
|
Persons Aged 2 Years and Older, 1996 |
Dental Visit in |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
44 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
34 |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
42 |
|
Asian |
DSU |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Black or African American |
27 |
|
White |
47 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
30 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
DNC |
|
Black or African American |
27 |
|
White |
50 |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
47 |
|
Male |
41 |
|
Education level (aged 25 years and older) |
|
|
Less than high school |
24 |
|
High school graduate |
40 |
|
At least some college |
55 |
|
Disability status |
|
|
Persons with disabilities |
40 |
|
Persons without disabilities |
45 |
|
Select populations |
|
|
Children aged 2 to 17 years |
48 |
|
Children at first school experience |
48 |
|
3rd grade students |
DNC |
|
Children, adolescents, and young adults aged 2 to 19 years; <200 percent of poverty level |
20 |
|
Adults aged 18 years and older |
43 |
|
Adults aged 65 years and older |
41 |
|
Dentate adults aged 18 years and older |
DNC |
|
Edentate adults aged 18 years and older |
DNC |
|
Adults aged 18 years and older with disabilities |
DNC |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.