GIS-Based Study of Dental Accessibility and Caries in 3-Year-Old Japanese Children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to reveal the geographic accessibility of dental clinics for most municipalities in Japan in 2015 and to explore the association between dental accessibility and dental caries status in 3-year-old children.

Methods

We computed the accessibility index and accessibility index rate for the population outside a 1-km radius of dental clinics using a geographic information system. We also used spatial autocorrelation analysis (Moran's I statistic) to examine the spatial clustering patterns of dental accessibility in Japanese municipalities. In addition, we adjusted the prevalence of dental caries for most municipalities using empirical Bayesian estimation. Finally, we applied multiple linear regression to scrutinise the associations between dental caries

SUBMITTER: Huang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10350597 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature