In 2015, women aged ≥18 years were more likely than men, overall and for each age group except those aged ≥65 years, to have seen or talked to a doctor or other health professional about their own health in the past 12 months. For both sexes, visits to a doctor or other health care professional increased with age, from 63.1% among men aged 18–29 years to 93.2% among men aged ≥65 years and from 82.4% among women aged 18–29 years to 94.3% among women ≥65 years.
Source: National Health Interview Survey, 2015. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/index.htm.
Footnotes
With 95% confidence intervals indicated with error bars.
Based on a question that asked “About how long has it been since you last saw or talked to a doctor or other health care professional about your own health? Include doctors seen while a patient in the hospital.” The response categories “6 months or less” and “More than 6 mos, but not more than 1 year ago” were combined for this chart.
Estimates are based on household interviews of a sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population and are derived from the National Health Interview Survey Sample Adult component.