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ArticleFamily & community health

Dental Insurance Status Among Formerly Incarcerated Older Adults.

Alexander Testa, Rafael Samper-Ternent, Dylan B Jackson, Kyle T Ganson, Vahed Maroufy, Jason M Nagata, Ana C Neumann

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7 authors.

Alexander TestaAuthor Affiliations: Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX (Drs Testa, and Samper-Ternent); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD (Dr Jackson); Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Dr Ganson); Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX (Dr Maroufy); Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (Dr Nagata); and Department of General Practice and Dental Public Health, School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX (Dr Neumann).ORCID 0000-0002-8686-9115
Rafael Samper-Ternent
Dylan B Jackson
Kyle T Ganson
Vahed Maroufy
Jason M Nagata
Ana C Neumann

Funding

Advancing Health Disparities Research in Aging: The Aging Research in Criminal Justice & Health (ARCH) NetworkR24AG065175 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI LISA C BARRY, BRIE A WILLIAMS · 2019 to 2026
$3.3M
Informing national guidelines on adolescent and young adult physical activity and sedentary behavior to prevent cardiovascular diseaseK08HL159350 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI NAGATA, JASON M · 2021 to 2025
$869k
Oral Health and Dental Care Utilization Among Formerly Incarcerated Older Adults in the United StatesR03DE033486 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI TESTA, ALEXANDER MICHAEL · 2024 to 2025
$329k
NHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL159350NIA NIH HHS R24 AG065175NIDCR NIH HHS R03 DE033486
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Formerly incarcerated individuals have poorer oral health and less frequent dental care utilization than the general population. However, prior work has overlooked the relationship between prior incarceration and disparities in dental insurance coverage. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 11,638), findings from multiple logistic regression analyses demonstrate that formerly incarcerated older adults are significantly less likely to have dental insurance coverage (odds ratio [OR] = 0.745, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.608, 0.912). After accounting for the income-to-poverty ratio, this association was no longer statistically significant. Analyses using the Karlson-Holm-Breen method demonstrated that approximately 45% of the association between prior incarceration and dental insurance is explained by the income-to-poverty ratio. These findings suggest the need for policies to expand affordable dental coverage for formerly incarcerated older adults.

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Insurance CoverageInsurance, DentalPrisonersAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedUnited Statesdental insurancehealthhealth and retirement studyincarceration

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PMID41622520
PMCPMC12931953

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