Definition: Estimated percentage of children ages 0-17 who receive coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive health care within a medical home (e.g., in 2016-2019, 43.1% of California children received care within a medical home).
Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the National Survey of Children's Health and the American Community Survey (Jan. 2021).
Footnote: A medical home is a model of delivering primary care that accessible, family centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective. For more information, visit the American Academy of Pediatrics. In these estimates, children receiving care within a medical home must meet criteria for three components of primary care: (i) personal doctor or nurse, (ii) usual source for sick care, and (iii) family-centered care. Children needing referrals to specialty care and/or care coordination must also meet criteria for those components. Due to changes in methodology, these estimates should not be compared with data from earlier years. These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. U.S. and California data are direct estimates from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH). County-level data are based on methods of local area estimation using the NSCH and American Community Survey.
