Desigualdades socioeconômicas e saúde bucal

• Autor(a) principal: Celeste, Roger Keller
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4701
• topic: Income inequality; Socioeconomic factors; Oral health; Contextual effects; Dental care; Time trends; Effect modifiers; Mediators; Desigualdade de renda; Fatores socioeconômicos; Saúde bucal; Assistência odontológica; Efeitos contextuais; Tendências temporais; Modificadores de efeito; Mediadores; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA::EPIDEMIOLOGIA

This thesis focuses on the effect of income distribution on oral health and trends on socioeconomic disparities in oral health. Any social injustice, because of moral issues, is worth studying, though not all inequality of is unfair. Income inequality is unfair when people with less economic resources are penalized with poor health because of their condition of poverty. Unjust societies are those that allow economic inequalities to affect human rights as the right to a standard of living that ensures the individuals and their family a healthy life. Income inequalities were studied in two aspects: a) the contextual effects of income inequality in oral health, and; b) trends in the difference in oral health among people with higher and lower income. The first part contains 4 original articles that studied the association and the contextual mechanism by which income inequality affects oral health. For this we used data of the oral health survey SSBrasil in 2002. The results showed that: a) the association between income inequality and oral health is stronger in relation to dental caries than other oral diseases (e.g. periodontal diseases and malocclusions); b) the effects of inequality of income are more strongly associated with oral diseases of a shorter latency: c) that the effects associated with dental caries affect equally the rich and the poor. The second part of this thesis contains two original articles that described the trends in oral health and in the use of dental services into groups of higher and lower income, in Brazil and Sweden. For this analysis data were obtained from the Brazilian oral health surveys for the year 2002, while for Sweden were used data from the "Swedish Level of Living Survey" for the years 1968, 1974, 1981, 1991 and 2000. Trends in the prevalence of edentulismo showed a reduction in absolute disparities in both countries, but in Brazil trends in the prevalence of "no missing tooth" increased. Reductions in disparities in edentulismo were associated with the presence of a significant initiak difference, while the increase in inequality for outcome "no missing tooth" was related to small inequalities in the begining of data collection. Trends in the use of dental services highlighted that the poorer have been using less the dental services in both countries and the difference remain saignificant over time. however, in Brazil and Sweden, these differences decrease slightly in the cohort of young people because there was a decline in the percentage of rich people who visit the dentist. Our data show that income inequalities in oral health and use of dental serviceshave historically favored the more affluent population even in highly egalitarian countires as Sweden.