Evaluating socioeconomic inequalities in self-rated oral health and its contributing factors in Brazilian older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to evaluate socioeconomic inequalities in self-reported oral health among community-dwelling Brazilian older adults and evaluate the oral health factors contributing to the inequalities.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional study with data from the Brazilian National Health Survey conducted in 2019. The dependent variable is the self-report of oral health categorized as good or poor. Household per capita income in quintiles and schooling were used as socioeconomic variables. The explanatory covariates were age; gender; limitation in basic activities of daily living; number of teeth, use of dental prostheses; difficulty in eating; and recent dental visit. The Oaxaca-Blinder two-fold decomposition for binary outcomes was used to evaluate the factors c

SUBMITTER: Bof de Andrade F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11698338 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature