Adults views on having a healthcare provider that shares their same culture by ethnicity U.S. 2017

As of 2017, roughly 40 percent of Hispanic adults felt that having a health care provider that shared or understood their culture was not important, versus approximately 33 percent who felt it was very important. The statistic illustrates the percentage of adults in the U.S. who stated it was important to have a health care provider who shared or understood their culture as of 2017, by ethnicity.

Percentage of adults in the U.S. who stated it was important to have a health care provider who shared or understood their culture as of 2017, by ethnicity

Characteristic	Not important	Somewhat or slightly important	Very important
White, non-Hispanic	57.9%	29.1%	13%
Black, non-Hispanic	38.9%	29.4%	31.7%
Other, non-Hispanic	40.4%	32.6%	27%
Hispanic	38.7%	28.4%	32.9%

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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

Adults who had seen a health care professional in the past 12 months

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.

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