The report was compiled using data from the National Health Interview Survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics in 2011. The data was collected from January through September.
In 2011, women, aged 19 to 25 years, utilized healthcare services more than men of the same age group, according to the report:
• Nearly 81 percent of women had been to a physician in the past one year as compared to only 59 percent of men.
• Seventy-eight percent of women had a usual place for healthcare as compared to nearly 63 percent of men.
• Twenty-seven percent of women had been to the emergency room in the past one year as compared to 19 percent of men.
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