Access to health care is still a problem for many Utahns. Individuals who cannot obtain needed health care tend to have higher
rates of death and disability from chronic disease. Cost is the most commonly reported barrier to getting needed health care.
Adults Reporting Cost as a Barrier to Care in Past Year by Ethnicity, Utah, 2011
Data Notes
Age-adjusted to U.S. 2000 standard population. The 2011 BRFSS data in this graph include both landline and cell phone respondent
interviews along with a new weighting methodology called iterative proportional fitting, or raking. This methodology utilizes
additional demographic information (such as education, race, and marital status) in the weighting procedure. Both of these
methodology changes were implemented to account for an increased number of U.S. households without landline phones and an
under-representation of certain demographic groups that were not well-represented in the sample. This graph is based on the
new methodology. More details about these changes can be found at: http://health.utah.gov/opha/publications/brfss/Raking/Raking%20impact%202011.pdf.
Data Sources
Utah Data: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Office of Public Health Assessment, Utah Department of Health.
Percentage of adults aged 18 years and older who reported they were unable to receive needed health care in the past year
due to cost.
How We Calculated the Rates
Numerator:
Number of survey respondents who reported they were unable to receive needed health care in the past year due to cost.
Denominator:
Total number of survey respondents excluding those with missing, "Don't know/Not sure" and "Refused" answers.
Page Content Updated On 04/03/2013,
Published on 05/01/2013
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Office of Public Health Assessment, Center for Health Data, Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2101, Telephone:
801-538-9259, Website: http://health.utah.gov/opha/OPHA_BRFSS.htm, Email: jwratha@utah.gov
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