Ethnic inequalities in dental caries among adults in East London

Marcenes, Wagner; Delgado-Angulo, Elsa K.; Bernabe, Eduardo

dc.contributor.author	Delgado-Angulo, Elsa K.
dc.contributor.author	Bernabe, Eduardo
dc.contributor.author	Marcenes, Wagner
dc.date.accessioned	2019-02-06T14:52:41Z
dc.date.available	2019-02-06T14:52:41Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/5356
dc.description.abstract	BACKGROUND: This study explored ethnic inequalities in dental caries among adults and assessed the role of socioeconomic position (SEP) in explaining those inequalities. METHODS: We analysed data on 2013 adults aged 16-65 years, from the East London Oral Health Inequality (ELOHI) Study, which included a random sample of adults and children living in East London in 2009-10. Participants completed a questionnaire and were clinically examined for dental caries at home. Dental caries was measured using the number of decayed, missing and filled teeth or DMFT index. Ethnic inequalities in dental caries were assessed in negative binomial regression models before and after adjustment for demographic (sex and age groups) and SEP measures (education and socioeconomic classification). RESULTS: White Eastern European and White Other had higher DMFT, whereas all Asian (Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi and Other) and all Black (African, Caribbean and Other) ethnic groups had lower DMFT than White British. Similar inequalities were found for the number of filled and missing teeth, but there were no differences in the number of decayed teeth between ethnic groups. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed considerable disparities in dental caries between and within the major ethnic categories, which were independent of demographics and SEP.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Oxford University Press
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Journal of Public Health
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject	Adolescent	en_US
dc.subject	Adult	en_US
dc.subject	Female	en_US
dc.subject	Humans	en_US
dc.subject	Male	en_US
dc.subject	Young Adult	en_US
dc.subject	Aged	en_US
dc.subject	Middle Aged	en_US
dc.subject	Health Status Disparities	en_US
dc.subject	adults	en_US
dc.subject	ethnicity	en_US
dc.subject	inequalities	en_US
dc.subject	socioeconomic factors	en_US
dc.subject	DMF Index	en_US
dc.subject	oral health	en_US
dc.subject	Asian Continental Ancestry Group/statistics & numerical data	en_US
dc.subject	Dental Caries/epidemiology/ethnology	en_US
dc.subject	European Continental Ancestry Group/statistics & numerical data	en_US
dc.subject	London/epidemiology	en_US
dc.title	Ethnic inequalities in dental caries among adults in East London	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdv097
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.05
dc.relation.issn	1741-3850