ArticleBDJ open2016
Socioeconomic disadvantage and oral-health-related hospital admissions: a 10-year analysis.
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- Inequalities in oral health: estimating the longitudinal economic burden of dental caries by deprivation status in six countries.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Factors associated with treatment outcomes of patients hospitalized with severe maxillofacial infections at a tertiary center.Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this Western Australian population study was to assess the relationship of socioeconomic disadvantage and: 1) trends in hospitalisations for oral-health-related conditions over 10 years; 2) insurance status, costs and length of stay in hospital; and 3) specific conditions (principal diagnosis) patients were admitted for.
methodsHospitalisation data (of oral-health-related conditions) were obtained for every episode of discharge from all hospitals in Western Australia for the financial years 1999-2000 to 2008-2009. Area based measures (using the Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage) was used to determine relationships between socioeconomic status and other variables.
resultsThe most disadvantaged in the population are being hospitalised at significantly higher rates than other groups, stay in hospital for longer, and at higher costs. This trend remained over a period of 10 years. Those least disadvantaged have the second highest rates of hospitalisation, but the likelihood of being admitted for different procedures differ between these two extremes.
conclusionsThe importance of socioeconomic determinants of health are evident when analysing these hospitalisations. Recognition that lifestyle choices are severely restricted among the most marginalised and disadvantaged groups in the population can no longer be ignored in attempts to reduce health inequalities.
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