A number of black and Hispanic women in California reported having difficulty finding a personal physician and paying for physician visits, as found in report released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, according to California Healthline.
The report used data from a 2012 to 2014 CDC survey.
Here are five findings:
1. Twenty-three percent of black women and 31 percent of Hispanic women reported fair or poor health, compared to 13 percent of white women.
2. Of the respondents, 26 percent of Hispanic women reported cost concerns stopped them from visiting a physician in the past year.
3. Seventeen percent of black women said costs prohibited them from seeing a physician in the last year, as opposed to 16 percent of white women.
4. The report found 22 percent of California women overall reported they did not have a personal healthcare provider. Thirty-five percent of Hispanic women lacked a personal healthcare provider.
5. Of the respondents, 15 percent of black women lacked a personal healthcare provider, compared to 13 percent of white women.
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