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ReviewHarm reduction journal2022

Access to oral care is a human rights issue: a community action report from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada.

Ehsan Jozaghi, Vandu, Russ Maynard, Yasaman Khoshnoudian, Mario A Brondani

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Review in Harm reduction journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ehsan JozaghiFaculty of Dentistry, 116/2199 Wesbrook Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada. eja2@sfu.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-3555-085X
VanduVancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), 380 East Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, V6A 1P4, Canada.
Russ MaynardPHS Community Services Society, 9 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, V6A 1M9, Canada.
Yasaman KhoshnoudianFaculty of Dentistry, 116/2199 Wesbrook Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Mario A BrondaniFaculty of Dentistry, 116/2199 Wesbrook Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
University of British Columbia · CAPHS Community Services Society · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To offer a critical reflection on an impoverished neighborhood in Vancouver, Canada, and their access to oral health care. A review of how a lack of publicly funded oral health care affects the most vulnerable, uninsured, and underserved citizens is performed. Personal and professional accounts on how entrepreneurial innovations of not-for-profit organizations can help to close the gap in access to oral health care are offered using the Vancouver Area Network of drug users (VANDU) and the PHS Community Services Society as case studies in British Columbia. Despite the efforts put forward by not-for-profit organizations such as the VANDU and the PHS Community Services Society, a national oral health care plan is warranted though still not a political imperative. Underserved citizens have a right to oral health care that is compassionate, collaborative, accessible, and affordable.

Indexed as

Community ParticipationDrug UsersBritish ColumbiaHuman RightsHumansAccess to oral careDentistryDowntown EastsideMarginalizedOral healthPeople who use drugsStigmaSubsidizedUnderservedVANDU

Identifiers

PMID35501857
PMCPMC9059447
OpenAlexW4225281625

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Registered trials

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