A community-based oral public health approach to promote health equity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We explored the interrelationships among diabetes, hypertension, and missing teeth among underserved racial/ethnic minority elders.

Methods

Self-reported sociodemographic characteristics and information about health and health care were provided by community-dwelling ElderSmile participants, aged 50 years and older, who took part in community-based oral health education and completed a screening questionnaire at senior centers in Manhattan, New York, from 2010 to 2012.

Results

Multivariable models (both binary and ordinal logistic regression) were consistent, in that both older age and Medicaid coverage were important covariates when self-reported diabetes and self-reported hypertension were included, along with an interaction term between self-reported dia

SUBMITTER: Northridge ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4455510 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature