Definition: Estimated percentage of children ages 0-17 with special health care needs (CSHCN) who have a usual first place they go when they are sick that is not a hospital emergency room, by household income level (e.g., in 2022, among California CSHCN living on income at or above 400% of their household's federal poverty threshold, 89.6% had a usual source of sick care).
Data Source: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Survey of Children's Health (Dec. 2023).
Footnote: The federal poverty threshold was $29,678 for a family of two adults and two children in 2022. Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally. These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The notation S refers to estimates that have been suppressed because (a) there were fewer than 20 respondents in that group, or (b) the margin of error for the estimate is greater than 10 percentage points. The annotation [!] indicates that the estimate's margin of error is greater than 5 percentage points but not greater than 10 percentage points. For more information, see https://www.childhealthdata.org/learn-about-the-nsch/NSCH.
