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Structural Determinants and Children's Oral Health: A Cross-National Study.

S R Baker¹, L Foster Page², W M Thomson²

¹1 Unit of Dental Public Health, School of Clinical Dentistry, Claremont Crescent, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

Journal of Dental Research

|April 3, 2018

Summary

Structural determinants like governance and economic policies significantly impact children's oral health, influencing both clinical outcomes and quality of life. Understanding these upstream factors is crucial for public health dentistry and addressing oral health inequalities.

Keywords:

caries comparative inequalities quality of life risk factors social determinants

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Area of Science:

Public Health Dentistry
Social Determinants of Health
Health Policy Research

Background:

Traditional research on children's oral health often overlooks distal (upstream) factors.
Structural determinants, including political, economic, and social policies, profoundly shape children's health.
The World Health Organization's Commission for Social Determinants of Health framework highlights the importance of these upstream factors.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the relationship between children's clinical and self-reported oral health and key structural determinants.
To analyze associations with governance, macroeconomic policy, public policy, and social policy.

Main Methods:

Secondary data analysis of epidemiological samples of 8- to 15-year-olds across 11 countries (N=6,648).
Inclusion of data from Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, and Brazil.
Utilized measures of clinical oral health (decayed, missing, filled teeth) and oral health-related quality of life.

Main Results:

Political regime type, governance quality, GDP per capita, employment ratio, and income inequality were associated with children's oral health.
Human Development Index, health expenditure, and out-of-pocket health spending also showed significant associations.
Structural determinants explained 5% to 21% of the variance in children's oral health-related quality of life.

Conclusions:

Upstream or structural determinants are critical, yet understudied, factors influencing children's oral health.
These findings underscore the need to integrate structural determinants into public health dentistry research.
Addressing structural factors can significantly advance efforts to reduce oral health inequalities.