The economic and educational affluence of recent years has produced a heightened public awareness of the correlation between personal health and general well-being. Coincidently the development of the ideal concept of individual right to comprehensive professional health services is beginning t o put stress on systems for delivering health care. The preventive measures from public health have n...

PURPOSE This study examines the impact of dental coverage provided through a health insurance program for low-income children on the use of dental services in Western Pennsylvania. METHODS A before-after design with a control group was used. Telephone interviews were conducted with the families of newly enrolled children at the time of enrollment, at 6 months and at 12 months after enrollment...

The utilization of dental care services results from the interaction of biological determinants with sociocultural, family and community variables, as well as from some characteristics of health systems. The objective of this study was to assess the individual factors associated with the use of dental care services among low-income adult and elderly individuals living in the catchment area of t...

Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) are at risk for dental disease and face substantial challenges in accessing both routine and preventive dental services. In terms of unmet needs it ranks third, following residential services and employment opportunities for this particular group of people. Poorer oral health status negatively impacts overall health and one's q...

6. Lewis DW, Ismail AI. Preventive Dental Care (Chapter 36). Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1994. 7. US Preventive Services Task Force cited in Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. Canadian guide to clinical preventive health care. Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1994: 408-431. 8. Allister J, Stewart J, Spencer ...

BACKGROUND Appropriate dental care is an important part of maintaining good oral health. We examined the relationship between socioeconomic status, neighbourhood deprivation levels and older people's dental service use. METHODS We used logistic regression analysis to assess the relationship between self-reported dental service use and neighbourhood deprivation, adjusting for individual socioe...

INTRODUCTION Acculturation may strongly influence use of or access to health services among Hispanics in the United States. We assessed the relationships between acculturation and use of oral health services among Hispanic adults in the United States. METHODS Data were analyzed from Hispanic adults aged 18 years or older who participated in the 2006 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System....

Regular utilization of dental services helps to improve and maintain oral and general health, even in old age. However, utilization behavior for dental services changes with age: preventive utilization behavior is often replaced by a symptom-driven one. With age, a decrease in the utilization of dental services can be observed, whilst the frequency of contact with physicians increases. The pres...

As life expectancy increases, and with it both the relative and absolute numbers of individuals age 60 and older, oro-dental health services face new challenges. This article explores the status of geriatric dental care in Latin America through a bibliographic review of epidemiologic studies included in the MEDLINE and LILACS systems, as well as PAHO studies on this subject. The areas addressed...

Although the health status and health behaviour of foreign-born residents of Canada have been well documented, little is known about their use of dental services. The authors, hypothesizing that foreign-born people would have lower utilization of dental care services than native-born Canadians, undertook this study to identify the factors associated with dental visits by Canadians aged 12 years...