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Chartbook: Oral Health and Unmet Needs for Dental Care Among Children
Although existing literature and survey findings clearly document the burden of disease among children and disparities by race/ethnicity and income, less is known about oral health disparity by urban/rural residence among U.S. children. The Maternal and Child Health Bureau recently released "The Oral Health of Children: A Portrait of States and the Nation 2005," a dissemination portal for oral health findings from the National Survey of Children’s Health. While meeting many purposes, the publication is limited in presenting results by race, geographic residence, or the intersection of the two. Our study will contribute to existing knowledge by illuminating oral health disparities among rural and minority children.
The objectives of this comprehensive study were to:
- Describe the availability of dental care providers across the nation using tables, graphs, and maps at the national level.
- Examine the oral health status, access to dental care and unmet dental care needs for rural and minority children at the national, regional, and state levels.
- Examine how states rank against each other as a whole with regards to oral health status and access to dental care.
- Examine how rural parts of each state rank against each other with regards to oral health status and access to dental care.
Publications
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Chartbook: Dental Health and Access to Care among Rural Children: A National and State Portrait (Executive Summary)
Author(s): Amy Brock Martin, Eric Wang, Janice Probst, Nathan Hale, and Andrew Johnson
Date: 03 / 2008
Although children's dental health in the U.S. has improved over recent decades, a subset of children continues to suffer dental disease severe enough to constitute a public health problem. This Chartbook examines dental health status, use of preventive services, and dental insurance among rural and urban children. The Chartbook provides information specific to rural children, and in particular rural minority children, not available in similar detail from other sources. This information can be used at the state level for program planning and assessment.
A copy of the full report is available through the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center's Online Report Request System at http://rhr.sph.sc.edu/request.htm. You may elect to receive a paper or an electronic copy of the full report. Generally, the requested report will be sent to you via postal mail (paper copy) or email (electronic copy) within one working day.
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