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Open Access 01-06-2006 | Proceedings

Reducing Oral Health Disparities: A Focus on Social and Cultural Determinants

Authors: Donald L Patrick, Rosanna Shuk Yin Lee, Michele Nucci, David Grembowski, Carol Zane Jolles, Peter Milgrom

Published in: BMC Oral Health | Special Issue 1/2006

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Abstract

Oral health is essential to the general health and well-being of individuals and the population. Yet significant oral health disparities persist in the U.S. population because of a web of influences that include complex cultural and social processes that affect both oral health and access to effective dental health care.
This paper introduces an organizing framework for addressing oral health disparities. We present and discuss how the multiple influences on oral health and oral health disparities operate using this framework. Interventions targeted at different causal pathways bring new directions and implications for research and policy in reducing oral health disparities.
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Metadata
Title
Reducing Oral Health Disparities: A Focus on Social and Cultural Determinants
Authors
Donald L Patrick
Rosanna Shuk Yin Lee
Michele Nucci
David Grembowski
Carol Zane Jolles
Peter Milgrom
Publication date
01-06-2006
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Oral Health / Issue Special Issue 1/2006
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6831
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-6-S1-S4

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