Using focus groups to design systems science models that promote oral health equity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While the US population overall has experienced improvements in oral health over the past 60 years, oral diseases remain among the most common chronic conditions across the life course. Further, lack of access to oral health care contributes to profound and enduring oral health inequities worldwide. Vulnerable and underserved populations who commonly lack access to oral health care include racial/ethnic minority older adults living in urban environments. The aim of this study was to use a systematic approach to explicate cause and effect relationships in creating a causal map, a type of concept map in which the links between nodes represent causality or influence.

Methods

To improve our mental models of the real world and devise strategies to promote oral health e

SUBMITTER: Kum SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5987593 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature