The impact of income on children's and adolescents' preventive dental visits

Watson, Maria Rosa; Manski, Richard J.; Macek, Mark D.

doi:10.14219/jada.archive.2001.0093

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“…Our finding that children from low-income families were less likely to visit a dentist and more likely to have dental cavities complements the existing literature. [22][23][24] Barriers to dental care among low-income families may include financial cost, access to transportation, school absence policies, and a belief that dental health may not be important to overall wellbeing. 25,26 Recently the Canadian Pediatric Society issued a position statement recommending all levels of government to hold dental care to the same standards of accessibility, universality, and comprehensiveness as other services under the Canadian Health Act.…”

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Factors Associated With Dental Care Utilization in Early Childhood

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Factors Associated With Dental Care Utilization in Early Childhood

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“…32 This is demonstrated in the greater likelihood of poor children going without recommended care compared with children with higher family income. Although we did not know which families had dental insurance, the Medicaid program includes periodic dental screening and referral under its Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment benefit through age 21.…”

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Factors That Influence Receipt of Recommended Preventive Pediatric Health and Dental Care

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Bellamy²,

Kogan³

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Pediatrics

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ABSTRACT.Objective. This study examined the factors that affect children's receipt of recommended wellchild and dental visits using nationally representative data.Methods. We analyzed the Child Public Use File of the 1999 National Survey of America's Families, including 35 938 children who were younger than 18 years. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between dependent variables, including receipt of well-child visits as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics' periodicity schedule and dental visits as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and Bright Futures, and independent variables, including health status and sociodemographic and economic indicators.Results. Overall, 23.4% of children did not receive the recommended well-child visits, whereas 46.8% did not receive the recommended number of dental visits. The factors that predict nonreceipt of care differed for wellchild and dental care and with child's age. Logistic regression reveals that children who were young (<10 years old), uninsured, non-Hispanic white, had a parent who was less than college educated, or in poor health were least likely to meet the recommendations for wellchild care. Children who did not meet the dental recommendation were more likely to be black, uninsured, from families with low incomes, have a parent who was less than college educated, and have postponed dental care in the last year. These risk factors increased with children's age.Conclusions. A substantial proportion of US children do not receive preventive care according to professionally recommended standards, particularly dental care. Publicly insured children experience higher rates of recommended well-child visits; however, much improvement is needed among public programs in providing recommended dental care, especially among adolescents and children in poor general health. Pediatrics 2002;110(6). URL: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/ full/110/6/e73; child, dental health services, multivariate analysis, preventive health services, professional organizations.

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“…This would suggest that emphasis be placed on efforts to secure and reinforce stable dental attendance patterns among children and adolescents. Lack of utilization of dental services is not a random phenomenon, and studies suggest that the dental attendance patterns among the young are related to age [8], gender [8-15], socioeconomic position [9-11,13-17], ethnic background [8,14,15], oral health related behaviors, such as smoking habits [9], and poor self perceived oral health status [14,18]. However, explicit conceptual models have not been presented, and only a single large study comprising a well-defined study group has considered simultaneously the effects of age, gender, and socioeconomic position [13].…”

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