Figure 2 is a bar chart showing percentages of health center visits among adults by reason for encounters in 2022. Categories shown are diseases, symptoms, screening, examination or observation, maternal and reproductive health, immunization, injury, and social determinants of health.

Figure 2Percentage of visits to health centers among adults, by selected reason for visit: United States, 2022

1Significantly different from all other categories.

2Significantly higher than injury- and social determinants of health-related visits.

3Significantly higher than social determinants of health-related visits.

NOTES: Rates are based on a sample of 3,807,097 visits by adults to 58 health centers, representing an estimated 88.6 million adult visits (weighted) to health centers in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Reasons for visits were defined based on the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD–10–CM). See Table 3 in this report for the ICD–10–CM codes used to define the categories. Health centers at which all diagnoses were missing for all visits (n = 6) were excluded and visit weights for the remaining health centers were normalized to account for excluded ones. Numbers do not add to 100 because visits can be represented in more than one category.

SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Health Center Component, 2022.

From: Number 211, Visits to Health Centers Among Adults, by Selected Characteristics: United States, 2022

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