After age adjustment, Vietnamese persons saw or talked to a medical doctor or physician's assistant an average of 3.9 times per year. This number is less than that for APIs as a whole (4.2 doctor visits) and non-Hispanic whites (6.3 doctor visits).
Source: Kuo, J., and Porter, K. Health Status of Asian Americans: United States, 1992-94. Advance data from vital and health statistics; no.298. Hyattsville , MD : National Center for Health Statistics. 1997.
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