ArticleAmerican journal of public health2017
Impact of Early Head Start in North Carolina on Dental Care Use Among Children Younger Than 3 Years.
Article in American journal of public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Successful Oral Health Interventions for Children Living in Vulnerable Circumstances - A Scoping Review.International dental journal · 2025Article
- Methods Used to Evaluate the Health Effects of Social Policies: A Systematic Review.Current epidemiology reports · 2025Article
- Canadian dentists' views on the first dental visit for children.Frontiers in oral health · 2022Article
- Access to preventive services after the integration of oral health care into early childhood education and medical care.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2018Article
- Marginalized zero-inflated Poisson models with missing covariates.Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift · 2018Article
- Absence of a moderating effect of parent health literacy on Early Head Start enrollment and dental use.Journal of public health dentistry · 2018Article
- Early Head Start, Pediatric Dental Use, and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life.JDR clinical and translational research · 2017Article
- A Public Health of Consequence: Review of the April 2017 Issue of AJPH.American journal of public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine the effects of North Carolina Early Head Start (EHS), an early education program for low-income children younger than 3 years and their families, on dental care use among children.
methodsWe performed a quasi-experimental study in which we interviewed 479 EHS and 699 non-EHS parent-child dyads at baseline (2010-2012) and at a 24-month follow-up (2012-2014). We estimated the effects of EHS participation on the probability of having a dental care visit after controlling for baseline dental care need and use and a propensity score covariate; we included random effects to account for EHS program clustering.
resultsThe odds of having a dental care visit of any type (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 2.5; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.74, 3.48) and having a preventive dental visit (adjusted OR = 2.6; 95% CI = 1.84, 3.63) were higher among EHS children than among non-EHS children. In addition, the adjusted mean number of dental care visits among EHS children was 1.3 times (95% CI = 1.17, 1.55) the mean number among non-EHS children.
conclusionsThis study is the first, to our knowledge, to demonstrate that EHS participation increases dental care use among disadvantaged young children.
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