Table 3
Percentage consulting selected health care providers, lacking regular doctor, reporting unmet health care need and using preventive screening, bygender and sexualidentity, household population aged 18 to 59, Canada, 2003 and 2005 combined

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  Men Women
Heterosexual Gay Bisexual Heterosexual Lesbian Bisexual
% % % % % %
Consultation in past 12 months
Family doctor or general practitioner 69.2 74.8* 72.1 82.6 76.9* 81.3
Medical specialist 19.0 29.4* 22.8 33.0 37.6 38.2
Nurse 8.4 14.7* 11.1 14.0 13.2 21.6*
Social worker or counsellor 3.5 6.8*E 9.3*E 5.7 8.6E 16.6*
Psychologist 2.5 7.7* 5.8*E 4.0 10.0*E 10.7*E
Alternative care provider 11.0 20.3* 13.4E 20.6 33.1* 27.3*
Self-help group 2.1 3.7* 4.5*E 3.0 6.5*E 9.4*
No regular doctor 21.9 22.2 26.2 11.6 19.0* 24.2*
Unmet health care need in past 12 months 10.9 14.2* 17.8* 14.8 19.6* 28.6*
Preventive screening
Mammogram in past 2 years (aged 50 to 59) ... ... ... 71.1 71.9 49.0*
Pap test in past 3 years ... ... ... 77.1 64.0* 76.2
* significantly different from estimate for heterosexual population of same gender (p < 0.05)
E use with caution (coefficient of variation 16.6% to 33.3%)
Note: Missing values are excluded.
Data source: 2003 and 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey (combined data).
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2008, " Health care use among gay, lesbian and bisexual Canadians", Health Reports, Vol. 19, No. 1, catalogue number 82-003-XWE.