ArticleCommunity dentistry and oral epidemiology2021
Ten-year changes in children's oral health disparities: Findings from the 3rd and 4th oral health surveys in Beijing, China.
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- Effects of early preventive dental visits and its associations with dental caries experience: a cross-sectional study.BMC oral health · 2022Article
- Ten-year changes in children's oral health disparities: Findings from the 3rd and 4th oral health surveys in Beijing, China.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesLittle is known about children's oral health disparities and their changes in developing countries. This study aimed to measure rural-urban and maternal education-related disparities in dental visits and untreated caries among Chinese children, and to describe their changes between 2005 and 2015.
methodsThe 12-year-old children's oral health data were from the 3rd (2005) and 4th (2015) oral health surveys in Beijing, China. Rural-urban disparities and maternal education-related disparities in dental visits and untreated caries were measured. The slope index of inequality (SII) and a relative index of inequality (RII) were applied to reflect the absolute and relative disparities respectively. These were estimated using a generalized linear regression model.
resultsData were analysed from 388 children in 2005 and 1926 children in 2015. The proportion of 12-year-old schoolchildren who visited the dentist was 24.0% in 2005 and 36.0% in 2015. Untreated caries prevalence in 2005 and 2015 was 20.9% and 16.2% respectively. Rural-urban disparities in dental visits narrowed between 2005 and 2015 (SII: -10.75 to -3.30, RII: 0.55 to 0.87), and maternal education-related disparities in dental visits also decreased during this decade (SII: -18.52 to -8.49, RII: 0.38 to 0.65). These changes were statistically significant. For disparities in untreated caries, only maternal education-related disparities in untreated caries in 2015 were found. The SII and RII were 6.39% (95% CI: 1.65, 11.13) and 1.57 (95% CI: 1.13, 2.20) respectively. The change in disparities in untreated caries was not statistically significant for rural-urban disparities (P = .319) or maternal education-related disparities (P = .501).
conclusionsThese findings indicate that in Beijing, China, disparities in children's dental visits narrowed between 2005 and 2015. However, maternal education-related disparities in dental visits and in untreated caries were still apparent, suggesting that policies to improve children's oral healthcare utilization equality should target the children with less-educated mothers.
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