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Health Promotion Department, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Publications dans "Soins dentaires" :
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School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Publications dans "Soins dentaires" :
1 publication dans cette catégorie
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College of Dental Medicine, Roseman University of Health Sciences, South Jordan, UT, United States.
Publications dans "Soins dentaires" :
There is a global increase in the older population. Unfortunately, dental conditions in the older population can sometimes be poor as a result of worsened physical conditions and the cumulative damage...
To assess whether inability to afford dental care is associated with the number of teeth with untreated dental caries and whether this association is independent of socioeconomic factors and ethnicity...
Data were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (2015-2018), a cross-sectional national survey of non-institutionalised Americans....
The survey included clinical assessment of tooth condition, data on sociodemographic factors, use of dental services, health insurance, number of teeth and affordability of dental care when needed....
The analysis included 9,440 participants aged 18 years and over....
The association between number of teeth with untreated caries and affordability of dental care was assessed adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, income, education, dental visits, and health insurance...
The mean number of teeth with untreated caries was 0.51, and 13% reported inability to afford care. Mean numbers of teeth with untreated caries among those unable and able to afford dental care were 1...
Inability to afford dental care may exacerbate inequalities in dental caries. The findings highlight the need for affordable access to dental services....
A nurse-led rural practice, Archer Family Health Care, established a partnership with the University of Florida College of Dentistry to improve access to dental care for underserved rural populations....
A qualitative design was used to evaluate if this partnership improved access to dental care and identify care barriers existing in this population. Outcome measures were 1) completed dental visits an...
As a result of this partnership, 118 direct dental referrals were placed. From those referrals, 45 (38%) patients completed their dental appointments, and 73 (62%) patients did not. Twenty-five patien...
This project suggests that specific interventions may increase opportunities for dental care in rural areas however barriers continue to exist that may impact that access....
Both dental and cardiovascular disease are prevalent in the general population, have common risk factors and may be closely associated.Following cardiothoracic surgery, patients may be higher risk for...
This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between preventive dental care utilization and untreated dental caries for Medicaid-enrolled adolescents and to determine if the relationship is moderated...
This analysis was based on 2015-2016 Medicaid claims files and survey data collected from adolescents ages 12-18 years enrolled in Oregon Medicaid, who received a dental screening between December 201...
About 60.4% of adolescents utilized preventive dental care, 21.7% had CC, and 29.6% had ≥1 decayed tooth surfaces. There were no significant differences in untreated dental caries between adolescents ...
Preventive dental care was not shown to be associated with lower untreated dental caries for Medicaid-enrolled adolescents or those with CC. Future work that is adequately powered should continue to e...
The objective of this study was to examine the effect of adult dental benefit cuts on child dental use in Washington state Medicaid and determine if cuts affect child demographic subgroups differentia...
The study used an interrupted time-series methodology to measure differences in child dental use after adult dental benefit elimination and reinstatement. Monthly data came from Washington state Medic...
Medicaid-enrolled children with at least one Medicaid-enrolled adult in the same household were the intervention group, and Medicaid-enrolled children without a Medicaid-enrolled adult in the same hou...
The outcome was the monthly proportion of Medicaid-enrolled children with a dental examination per 10,000 Medicaid-enrolled children....
After adult dental benefits elimination, dental examinations among children with Medicaid-enrolled adults in the same household gradually decreased, corresponding to 65 fewer dental examinations per 1...
Policymakers should consider the spillover effects and ethical considerations of eliminating adult Medicaid dental benefits on children's access to dental care....
To depict the influence of discretionary actions exercised by frontline professionals and organizations on the implementation of diverse modalities of access to specialized dental care within the Care...
A case study conducted in two Brazilian health regions characterized by distinct means of access to specialized dental care employing documentary analysis and interviews with key stakeholders across t...
In the referenced access region, there was a notable centrality of Primary Health Care (PHC) in caregiving, wherein planning and assessment were integral components of institutional routines. Where sp...
The implementation of policies for specialized dental care for persons with disabilities relied on the coordination furnished by PHC and the orchestration of planning and assessment endeavors aimed at...
This study analyzed the regulation of dental specialty centers (CEOs) coordinated exclusively by Primary Health Care (PHC) in four primary outcomes: access and dental consultation, reception services,...
A cross-sectional study was carried out using secondary data from the National Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality of Dental Specialty Centers (PMAQ-CEO): second cycle, using multilevel ...
The analytical sample consisted of 9,599 CEO users who had completed all the variables analyzed. Of these, 63.5% were referred to the CEO by PHC. Dental care regulated by PHC was related to better acc...
The regulation of access to the CEO coordinated by PHC presented the best performance. It is suggested that this form of PHC regulation, as a route for dental specialty centers, can be established in ...
Cardiac transplantation replaces a severely damaged non-functioning heart with a healthy heart from a donor. Within the UK, the number of cardiac transplants being performed each year is increasing, w...
Evidence indicates an increasing shortage of dentists in communities across the United States with potentially significant implications for oral health, as well as overall health and well-being. One s...