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. 2016 Jul;106(7):1336–1341. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303177

TABLE 2—

Numbers of Pediatricians and Family Medicine Doctors and Mean PBE Rates, by School Racial/Ethnic Composition: California Kindergartens, 2010–2012

School Race/Ethnicity Mean No. of Pediatricians in PCSA (per 100 000 population) Mean No. of Family Doctors in PCSA (per 100 000 population) Ratio of Family Doctors to Pediatricians Mean PBE Rate
Highly White (≥ 50%) 16.4 30.7 1.87 6.94
Highly Hispanic (≥ 76%) 16.1 28.1 1.75 0.46
Highly African American (≥ 8%) 16.8 28.0 1.67 1.68
Highly Asian (≥ 9%) 17.8 29.2 1.64 1.99
Highly Native American (≥ 1%) 15.9 29.7 1.88 3.84
Highly Filipino (≥ 3%) 16.7 28.5 1.70 1.85
Highly other Pacific Islander (≥ 1%) 16.8 29.0 1.73 2.42
Overall mean 16.3 28.9 1.78 2.79

Note. PBE = personal belief exemption; PCSA = Primary Care Service Area. Schools were designated as having a high representation of a given racial/ethnic group if that group’s representation reached the 75th percentile or above relative to all California kindergartens; 75th percentile thresholds are shown in parentheses.