AIM The objective of this study was to provide information on the level of utilization and satisfaction of residential university students with the dental services provided by the dental clinic of a teaching hospital. VOLUNTEERS AND MATERIAL: A stratified sampling technique was used to recruit volunteers from the outpatient clinic of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile...

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a policy change to expand Korean National Health Insurance (KNHI) benefit coverage to include scaling on access to dental care at the national level. METHODS A nationally representative sample of 12,794 adults aged 20 to 64 years from Korea National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (2010-2014) was analyzed. To examine the effect of ...

Dental caries can be prevented by a combination of community, professional, and individual measures including water fluoridation, professionally applied topical fluorides and dental sealants, and use of fluoride toothpastes. Yet, tooth decay is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Dental care is the most prevalent unmet health need in US children with wide disparities existing in oral ...

BACKGROUND In many European countries including Germany, migrants utilize preventive services less frequently than the majority population. This is also true for the utilization of dental checkups. Little is known about which demographic, social, behavioral, and health-related factors influence the decision of migrants to seek preventive dental health care and how these factors differ from thos...

objective: there are disparities in mental health services (mhs) utilization within and between populations and several factors are studied as its potential correlates. identifying those correlates would help health policy makers to adjust service provision with characteristics of their community. to evaluate demographic, socioeconomic and system correlates of mhs utilization among married wome...

background and objectives: induced demand in healthcare is referred to as provision of unnecessary services or the patient by health services providers, while the patient is not aware of their unnecessity. apart from being unethical, this practice can potentially disturb the supply and demand balance in the health market, pose financial load on the patient, thread the patient’s health by imposi...

OBJECTIVES This study examined and compared utilization of dental services by adult U.S. Hispanics 18 years and older in the years 1999 and 2006. METHODS Dental utilization data collected by telephone interviews by the state-based Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) were analyzed. RESULTS In 2006, the state mean and median prevalence of adult Hispanics with dental visits duri...

UNLABELLED American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) experience significant health disparities relative to the general U.S. POPULATION In particular, oral diseases affect the majority of the AI/AN population and their prevalence is significantly greater than observed in other demographic sectors of the U.S. POPULATION The reasons for these disparities are multiple but lack of access to de...

BACKGROUND Most Medicaid programs reimburse nondental providers for preventive dental services. We estimate the impact of comprehensive preventive oral health services (POHS) on dental caries among kindergarten students, hypothesizing improved oral health among students with medical visits with POHS. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study in 29,173 kindergarten students by linking Medicai...

INTRODUCTION This study assesses whether demographic and rural-urban variations in dental care service utilization still exist in Taiwan after 15 years of the implementation of universal health insurance coverage, which largely reduces financial barriers to dental care. METHODS The data analysed in this cohort study were based on a random sample of one million beneficiaries retrieved from Tai...