Unmet dental care needs of homeless adults in South Korea: Findings from a national survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianhua Che ◽  
Minsung Sohn ◽  
Sungje Moon ◽  
Hee‐Jung Park
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Homeless Adults ◽  
Dental Care Needs

Unmet dental care needs in South Korea: how do they differ by insurance system?

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianhua Che ◽  
Minsung Sohn ◽  
Hee-Jung Park
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Confidence Interval ◽  
South Korea ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Income Group ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Medical Aid ◽  
Dental Care Needs

Objectives This study aimed to analyse and compare the influence of National Health Insurance and Medical Aid coverage on the persistency of unmet dental care needs in South Korea. Methods This study was based on a longitudinal sample of 4461 adults aged 19 years and older who participated in the South Korea Health Panel from 2011 to 2014, using weights to make the data nationally representative. Propensity score matching was used to adjust the demographic, socioeconomic and health status information of National Health Insurance and Medical Aid groups. Panel logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the association between health insurance type and unmet dental needs for three consecutive years. Results The odds of the lowest income group reporting unmet dental care needs compared with the highest income group was 6.75 (confidence interval 5.94−7.67), which reduced to 4.19 (confidence interval 3.76−4.67) in the models including health insurance schemes. Additionally, Medical Aid recipients (odds ratio 2.49; 95% confidence interval 2.18−2.48) were more likely to have unmet needs than those covered by National Health Insurance. Conclusions The dental care needs of Medical Aid beneficiaries were not being met, unlike those of the National Health Insurance beneficiaries. Such evidence suggests that increasing health insurance coverage to include several essential dental services would improve the accessibility of dental care services for Medical Aid beneficiaries.

scholarly journals Impact of Long Working Hours and Shift Work on Perceived Unmet Dental Need: A Panel Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 2939
Author(s):  
Hye-Eun Lee ◽  
Nam-Hee Kim ◽  
Tae-Won Jang ◽  
Ichiro Kawachi
Keyword(s):  
Shift Work ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Long Working Hours ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Dental Care Needs ◽  
Dental Needs

This study investigates whether workers with long working hours as well as shift workers perceive higher unmet dental care needs, and whether there is a gender difference in the associations. We used the Korea Health Panel (2009, 2011–2014) involving 20,451 person-wave observations from 5567 individuals. Perceived unmet dental care needs was defined when the participants reported that they perceived a need for dental treatment or check-up but had failed to receive dental care services during the past year. Fixed effects logit models were applied to examine how changes in weekly working hours or shift work status were linked to changes in perceived unmet dental needs within each individual. Among participants, 15.9–24.7% reported perceived unmet dental needs and the most common reason was time scarcity. We found that long working hours (>52 h/week) was significantly associated with perceived unmet dental needs due to time scarcity in both men (OR = 1.42, 95% CI 1.13–1.78) and women (OR = 1.35, 95% CI 1.03–1.79) compared workers working 40–52 h per week. Shift work was also a significant risk factor, but only in women (OR = 1.57, 95% CI 1.06–2.32). These findings provide evidence for labor policies to reduce working hours in order to improve access to dental care services.

Characteristics of individuals with hydrocephalus and their dental care needs

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Weber de Morais Gallarreta ◽  
Fernanda Pierobon Lopes Bernardotti ◽  
Aldevina Campos de Freitas ◽  
Alexandra Mussolino de Queiroz ◽  
Gisele Faria
Keyword(s):  
Dental Care ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Dental Care Needs

scholarly journals Factors of unmet dental care needs among elderly living alone

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-81
Author(s):  
Jun Ha Kim ◽  
So Yeong Kim ◽  
Kyung Hee Jo ◽  
Ye Rim Kim ◽  
Mijin Choi
Keyword(s):  
Dental Care ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Dental Care Needs ◽  
Elderly Living

scholarly journals Dental care necessity at productive age in Cilayung Village, Jatinangor Districts, Sumedang Regency

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Granidya Rosa Atlantika ◽  
Anne Agustina Suwargiani ◽  
Sri Susilawati
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Oral Care ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Dental Care Needs ◽  
Dental Health Status

Introduction: Dental care necessity is a set of dental and oral care must obtained by someone in a certain period in order to achieve good dental health status in accordance to dentist assessment. Productive age according to WHO is group of 35-44 years old as standard age to see adult oral health condition. The purpose of this research was to get data of dental care necessity at productive age in Cilayung Village. Methods: The research method is descriptive with cluster sampling technique. Samples of 80 respondents of productive age group were obtained by using pathfinder surveys technique. Dental care necessity assessment was assessed by using WHO oral health surveys basic methods and the oral condition of respondents was examined by using mouth glass. Results: The results of the study indicated that the most needed dental care was caries prevention, with as much as 80 people (100%) and the need for one surface treatment with as much as 75 people (93.75%). Conclusion: The priority of dental care needs in Cilayung Village were the prevention of caries and the surface one.

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