Association Between Dental Expenditure and Socioeconomic Status in Iran.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health care spending by households can be a great indicator of a society's commitment to good health stewardship and the efficiency of institutions responsible for managing health costs. Equitable and appropriate distribution of dental services is a challenging issue for realising universal health coverage. This study aimed to evaluate Iranian households' per capita dental expenditure (DE) according to their socioeconomic status (SES).

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, the income and expenditure of 18,701 urban and 19,261 rural households in Iran were scrutinised according to the data provided by the Statistics Center of Iran (2017-2018). After model creation, the SES index was determined using principal component analysis and weighting based on the analytica

SUBMITTER: Jadidfard MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11551582 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature