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Published on: February 2, 2020
Comparing Oral Health Services Use in the Spanish and Immigrant Working Population
Natalia Muñoz-Pino1, Carmen Vives-Cases2,3, Andrés A Agudelo-Suárez4,2
1Faculty of Dentistry, University of Antioquia, Calle 70 # 52-21, Medellín, 050010, Colombia. munozpi88@gmail.com.
Abstract:
We aim to analyze oral health services use and related factors in the immigrant working population compared to the Spanish counterparts. Cross-sectional study of working population (n = 8591) that responded Spanish National Health Survey (SNHS), 2011-2012. The association between oral health services use and migration status was estimated using logistic regression. Immigrant men presented a greater probability of oral health service use a year or more prior (aOR 1.63; 95% CI 1.26-2.02), independently of oral health, sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics. In immigrant women, greater probability of use of oral health services one year or more prior disappeared after adjusting for the same variables (aOR 1.15; 95% CI 0.91-1.45). Occupational social class and education level could explain better a high percentage of oral health service use one year or more prior in immigrant women but there is a persistent inequality in oral health service use in immigrant men.
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