Does regional socioeconomic context affect the dental caries experience? A multilevel study of Korean adults
2011; Wiley; Volume: 119; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1600-0722.2011.00831.x
ISSN1600-0722
Autores Tópico(s)Dental Health and Care Utilization
ResumoEuropean Journal of Oral SciencesVolume 119, Issue 4 p. 294-300 Does regional socioeconomic context affect the dental caries experience? A multilevel study of Korean adults Youn-Hee Choi, Youn-Hee Choi Department of Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Kyungpook National University, DaeguSearch for more papers by this authorSang Gyu Lee, Sang Gyu Lee Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, South KoreaSearch for more papers by this author Youn-Hee Choi, Youn-Hee Choi Department of Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Kyungpook National University, DaeguSearch for more papers by this authorSang Gyu Lee, Sang Gyu Lee Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, South KoreaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 11 June 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0722.2011.00831.xCitations: 4 Sang Gyu Lee, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Room #447, San 29, Anseo-dong, Cheonan-si, Choongnam 330-714, South KoreaTelefax: +82–41–5566461E-mail: [email protected] Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Choi Y-H, Lee SG. Does regional socioeconomic context affect the dental caries experience? A multilevel study of Korean adults. Eur J Oral Sci 2011; 119: 294–300. © 2011 Eur J Oral Sci Recent thinking about the role of regional socioeconomic context in generating health inequalities has argued for the collection of true 'area' data that accurately reflect the characteristics of a region. We investigated whether a range of attributes of regional environments, constructed from factor analysis of various regional socioeconomic indices, is associated with the dental caries experience of adults, and whether the nature of this association changes according to age. A linked data set comprising information on 6,402 individuals from the Korean National Oral Health Survey of 2000 and regional information from 118 districts where our study population lived, were examined using multilevel analysis. The regional contextual variables, 'density of service and medical facilities' and 'dependence on manufacturing industry', were negatively associated with dental caries experience after controlling for individual characteristics, and these associations differed by age groups, especially in the older age group. Our findings suggest that hypotheses about specific chains of causation which might link service affluence or industrialization with dental caries need to be investigated further using more detailed indices. References 1 Kitagawa EM, Hauser PM. Differential mortality in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. 2 Britton M, Fox A, Goldblatt P, Jones K, Rosato M. The influences of socio-economic and environmental factors on geographic variation in mortality. In: M Britton, ed. Mortality and geography: a review in the mid-1980s England and Wales. London: Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, 1990; 57–78. 3 Carstairs V, Morris R. 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