دورية أكاديمية

Dental health status, dentist visiting, and dental insurance of Asian immigrants in Canada

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العنوان: Dental health status, dentist visiting, and dental insurance of Asian immigrants in Canada
المؤلفون: Li, Qianqian, Wang, Yu, Knight, John C., Yi, Yanqing, Ozbek, Sara, Shariati, Matin, Wang, Peizhong Peter, Zhu, Yun
المساهمون: National Natural Science Foundation of China
المصدر: International Journal for Equity in Health ; volume 22, issue 1 ; ISSN 1475-9276
بيانات النشر: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
سنة النشر: 2023
مصطلحات موضوعية: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health Policy
الوصف: Objective This study examined the dental care utilization and self-preserved dental health of Asian immigrants relative to non-immigrants in Canada. Factors associated with oral health-related disparities between Asian immigrants and other Canadians were further examined. Methods We analyzed 37,935 Canadian residents aged 12 years and older in the Canadian Community Health Survey 2012–2014 microdata file. Factors (e.g., demographics, socioeconomic status, lifestyles, dental insurance coverage, and year of immigration) associated with disparities in dental health (e.g., self-perceived teeth health, dental symptoms during past one month, and teeth removed due to decay in past one year) and service utilization (e.g., visiting dentist within the last three years, visiting dentist more than once per year) between Asian immigrants and other Canadians were examined using multi-variable logistic regression models. Results The frequency of dental care utilization was significantly lower in Asian immigrants than their non-immigrant counterparts. Asian immigrants had lower self-perceived dental health, were less likely to be aware of recent dental symptoms, and more likely to report tooth extractions due to tooth decay. Low education (OR = 0.42), male gender(OR = 1.51), low household income(OR = 1.60), non-diabetes(OR = 1.87), no dental insurance(OR = 0.24), short immigration length (OR = 1.75) may discourage Asian immigrants from dental care utilization. Additionally, a perceived lack of necessity to dentist-visiting was a crucial factor accounting for the disparities in dental care uptake between Asian immigrants and non-immigrants. Conclusion Asian immigrants showed lower dental care utilization and oral health than native-born Canadians.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-023-01863-0
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-023-01863-0.pdf
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-023-01863-0/fulltext.html
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01863-0Test
حقوق: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.5D9CF7AD
قاعدة البيانات: BASE