Methods: The current study utilized a surveillance sample of 140,217 children (grades K through 12) attending 200 schools in Kansas, which requested screening assistance from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) from 2012 to 2013. Multilevel logistic regression analysis was ...
Experts in oral health policy from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine discussed barriers to equitable health care in a webinar hosted by the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Wednesday evening. The webinar featured Catherine Hayes, the chair of the Department of Oral Health P...
1242 Disparities in Oral Health: Latino Blue-collar Employees Residing in Eastern NCR. MCKAIG
Objective Socioeconomic disparities in oral health among adults have been observed in many countries, but it is not clear whether they exist in aspects of Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Chile. Methods Data were analyzed from the 1st National Health Survey (NHIS) of Chilean adults, cond...
Ethnic disparities in the oral health of three- to four-year- old children in East London. Br Dent J. 2013;215:E4.Marcenes W, Muirhead VE, Murray S, Redshaw P, Bennett U, Wright D. 2013. Ethnic disparities in the oral health of three- to four-year-old children in East London. ...
Family-centered disease prevention strategies are needed to reduce oral health disparities in children. Oral health promotion can take place in a primary care practitioner's office, but medical providers often lack relevant training. In this project, dental, medical, and educational faculty at a ...
US Department of Health and Human Services. Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General – Executive Summary. Rockville, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health 2000. ...
The 2000 Surgeon General's Report concluded that oral health was essential to overall health and that for underprivileged children a silent epidemic existed; dental decay being the single most common childhood disease, 5 times more common than asthma and poor children having 12 times as many activi...
population.”47 This situation is particularly disconcerting in oral health, where many conditions and risk factors are largely preventable. There are several definitions of health disparities and inequities; the scope of the definitions and the goals for overcoming them have expanded over time. In ...
While oral health disparities exist in many ethnic groups in Hawaii, the challenge of developing research and intervention programs is hampered by the lack of a dental school and adequate state resources. To use a collaboration model to establish a mentoring relationship with a research-intensive sc...