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| Title |
Inequality in oral health related to early and later life social conditions: a study of elderly in Norway and Sweden
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| Published in |
BMC Oral Health, February 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12903-015-0005-y |
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| Authors |
Ferda Gülcan, Gunnar Ekbäck, Sven Ordell, Stein Atle Lie, Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm |
| Abstract |
A life course perspective recognizes influences of socially patterned exposures on oral health across the life span. This study assessed the influence of early and later life social conditions on tooth loss and oral impacts on daily performances (OIDP) of people aged 65 and 70 years. Whether social inequalities in oral health changed after the usual age of retirement was also examined. In accordance with "the latent effect life course model", it was hypothesized that adverse early-life social conditions increase the risk of subsequent tooth loss and impaired OIDP, independent of later-life social conditions. Data were obtained from two cohorts studies conducted in Sweden and Norway. The 2007 and 2012 waves of the surveys were used for the present study. Early-life social conditions were measured in terms of gender, education and country of birth, and later-life social conditions were assessed by working status, marital status and size of social network. Logistic regression and Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) were used to analyse the data. Inverse probability weighting (IPW) was used to adjust estimates for missing responses and loss to follow-up. Early-life social conditions contributed to tooth loss and OIDP in each survey year and both countries independent of later-life social conditions. Lower education correlated positively with tooth loss, but did not influence OIDP. Foreign country of birth correlated positively with oral impacts in Sweden only. Later-life social conditions were the strongest predictors of tooth loss and OIDP across survey years and countries. GEE revealed significant interactions between social network and survey year, and between marital status and survey year on tooth loss. The results confirmed the latent effect life course model in that early and later life social conditions had independent effects on tooth loss and OIDP among the elderly in Norway and Sweden. Between age 65 and 70, inequalities in tooth loss related to marital status declined, and inequalities related to social network increased. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 106 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 106 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 9% |
| Other | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 23 | 22% |
| Unknown | 30 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 44 | 42% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Psychology | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 6% |
| Unknown | 31 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 March 2015.
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