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. 2018 Sep 14;1(5):e182136. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.2136

Table 1. Demographic and Health Care System Capacity Characteristics for All Counties and by Quintile of Composite Gallup-Sharecare 2010 WBI Scorea.

Characteristic Mean (SD) Value (n = 2998) WBI Quintileb
1 (n = 599) 2 (n = 597) 3 (n = 613) 4 (n = 588) 5 (n = 580)
No. of participants per county 755 (1220) 50 (38) 358 (481) 757 (952) 1130 (1758) 635 (655)
Composite WBI score 67.8 (3.2) 59.8 (3.0) 64.8 (0.8) 67.0 (0.6) 69.1 (0.7) 71.9 (1.5)
Age, median (SD), y 38.2 (4.4) 40.6 (3.6) 38.9 (4.1) 37.8 (4.2) 38.0 (4.7) 38.0 (4.3)
Sex, %
Male 49.2 (1.3) 49.8 (1.9) 49.3 (1.5) 49.1 (1.2) 49.1 (1.0) 49.3 (1.1)
Female 50.8 (1.3) 50.2 (1.9) 50.7 (1.5) 50.9 (1.2) 50.9 (1.0) 50.7 (1.1)
Race/ethnicity, %
White 74.9 (16.5) 83.2 (17.1) 77.0 (17.8) 73.0 (16.1) 74.2 (15.3) 74.6 (16.7)
Black 12.1 (13.0) 10.1 (15.3) 13.4 (14.9) 13.6 (12.7) 11.8 (12.1) 9.5 (11.9)
Asian 4.0 (5.3) 0.5 (0.4) 1.8 (2.1) 3.6 (4.4) 4.2 (4.4) 7.2 (8.5)
Hispanic or Latino 13.7 (14.8) 6.1 (12.3) 10.4 (13.0) 16.0 (16.1) 15.7 (15.7) 11.8 (11.0)
Other 5.2 (5.6) 2.4 (4.4) 4.2 (5.5) 5.9 (5.7) 6.0 (6.1) 4.6 (4.1)
Urban, % 7.6 (2.7) 3.4 (2.2) 6.5 (2.8) 8.0 (2.3) 8.3 (2.1) 8.0 (2.6)
Household income, × $1000 39.4 (11.1) 29.4 (4.3) 32.3 (4.4) 37.2 (7.4) 41.9 (11.3) 47.7 (13.6)
Health care system capacity, No. per 100 000 population
General practitioners 29.7 (15.3) 24.5 (15.1) 27.0 (15.1) 27.9 (14.9) 30.4 (13.8) 35.2 (17.0)
Specialists 90.5 (76.1) 23.0 (23.1) 56.5 (45.0) 87.9 (65.7) 103.4 (76.6) 122.3 (95.7)
Hospital beds 0.3 (0.2) 0.3 (0.4) 0.3 (0.3) 0.3 (0.2) 0.3 (0.2) 0.3 (0.2)
Full-time equivalents of physicians or dentists 37.9 (59.3) 25.7 (45.2) 36.5 (48.5) 42.8 (65.5) 39.7 (65.6) 32.2 (46.8)
Health care system capacity score, normalized 0.2 (0.6) −0.2 (0.4) 0.1 (0.5) 0.2 (0.6) 0.3 (0.6) 0.4 (0.6)
Score in counties with low capacity 1848.0 (61.6) 453.0 (15.1) 415.0 (13.8) 356.0 (11.9) 311.0 (10.4) 297.0 (9.9
Score in counties with high capacity 1150.0 (38.4) 146.0 (4.9) 182.0 (6.1) 257.0 (8.6) 277.0 (9.2) 283.0 (9.4)
Total Medicare per enrollee reimbursement (SD), $ 9660 (1334) 10 157 (1409) 10 012 (1305) 9928 (1282) 9594 (1284) 8891 (1159)

Abbreviation: WBI, Well-Being Index.

a

Gallup-Sharecare WBI was previously known as the Gallup-Healthways WBI prior to rebranding following Sharecare’s 2016 acquisition of Healthways.

b

P < .001 for all.