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.