Inclusive Oral Healthcare for a better Future Together

Babyar, Julie

doi:10.1007/s10916-020-01560-3

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“…Inequalities and inequities in oral healthcare services are prevalent worldwide [48][49][50]. Oral healthcare inequities in low and middle income countries are rooted in access to services and lack of preventative care [51]. Globally, lack of access to oral healthcare remains a major burden to public health.…”

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Demographic and socioeconomic inequalities in oral healthcare utilisation in Malaysia: evidence from a national survey

Tan

Jawahir

et al. 2021

BMC Oral Health

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Background Throughout the years, oral healthcare utilisation in Malaysia has been low despite various efforts by the Ministry of Health Malaysia for improvement. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of oral healthcare utilisation and identify factors associated with oral healthcare utilisation among adults in Malaysia. Methods Secondary data analysis of adults aged 18 years and over from the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2019 was conducted in this study. Characteristics of respondents and those who utilised oral healthcare were described using complex sample descriptive statistics. Logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the association between the dependent and independent variables. Dependent variable was oral healthcare utilisation in the last 12 months. Independent variables were demographic and socioeconomic factors (predisposing, enabling and need characteristics) based on Andersen’s Behavioural Model. Results A total of 11,308 respondents, estimated to represent 21.7 million adults aged 18 years and over in Malaysia were included in the analysis. Prevalence of oral healthcare utilisation in the last 12 months was 13.2%. Demographic factors of sex, age, marital status, and socioeconomic factors of education level and occupation as well as health belief such as medical check-up were significantly related to oral healthcare utilisation. Enabling factor of household income quintile had significant association with oral healthcare utilisation. Inequalities were observed; females (OR = 1.57, 95% CI = 1.25, 1.96), younger adults (OR = 1.64, 95% CI = 1.15, 2.33), those who were married (OR = 1.65, 95% CI = 1.23, 2.22), those with higher education (OR = 2.21, 95% CI = 1.23, 3.99), those who had medical check-up in the last 12 months (OR = 1.86, 95% CI = 1.53, 2.25) and those with higher income (OR = 1.43, 95% CI = 1.04, 1.96) were more likely to utilise oral healthcare. Conclusion Understanding factors associated with utilisation of oral healthcare could help in formulating effective interventions to improve oral healthcare utilisation. Demographic and socioeconomic factors are strong determinants of oral healthcare utilisation in Malaysia. Appropriate interventions to strengthen the existing programmes aimed to promote regular and timely oral health check-ups are needed to improve oral healthcare utilisation.

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Demographic and socioeconomic inequalities in oral healthcare utilisation in Malaysia: evidence from a national survey

Tan

Jawahir

et al. 2021

BMC Oral Health

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“…Although cleft palate surgery can improve speech and feeding functioning, there is variation in QOL (Kummer, 2016). Measuring QOL is integral in cleft care as aiming to improve QOL is an important part of patients' medical treatment (Bhuskute et al, 2017;Babyar, 2020).…”

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Quality of Life in Patients With Velopharyngeal Insufficiency in West China

Yakupu

et al. 2021

The Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal

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Objective This study aimed to investigate the quality of life (QOL) of patients with cleft lip and palate and velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) in relation to sex, age, age at initial cleft lip surgery, and age at initial cleft palate surgery. Design This is a cross-sectional study. Setting The study was conducted in a tertiary medical center. Participants The participants were caregivers of 72 patients with cleft lip and palate and VPI aged 4 to 20 years. Main Outcome Measure(s) Participants completed the Chinese version of the caregiver report of the VPI Effects on Life Outcomes (VELO) questionnaire. The Mann–Whitney U test was used to evaluate the patients’ sex, age, age at initial cleft lip repair, and age at initial cleft palate repair in relation to VELO total score and domains. Spearman correlation analysis was completed including all study variables. Associations between the study variables and the VELO total score were tested using a generalized linear mixed model. Results In the univariate analysis, patients’ age and age at initial cleft palate surgery influenced the QOL of patients with VPI. There were no differences in the VELO total score or domains based on sex or age at first cleft lip surgery. In the generalized linear mixed model, patients older than 8 years had higher VELO total scores. Conclusions By caregiver report, the QOL of patients under age 8 years with VPI was lower than older patients. In addition, the caregiver impact domain was higher for parents of children who had their initial cleft palate surgery at age 2 years or younger.

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