Socioeconomic inequalities in use and non-use of dental services in Poland

Dorota Elżbieta Piotrowska (), Dorota Jankowska (), Dorota Huzarska (), Andrzej Stanisław Szpak () and Bartosz Pędziński ()
Additional contact information
Dorota Elżbieta Piotrowska: Medical University of Bialystok
Dorota Jankowska: Medical University of Bialystok
Dorota Huzarska: Medical University of Bialystok
Andrzej Stanisław Szpak: Medical University of Bialystok
Bartosz Pędziński: Medical University of Bialystok

International Journal of Public Health, No 0, 11 pages

Abstract: Abstract Objectives To assess the impact of classical socioeconomic factors on the use and non-use of dental services on a representative sample of Polish population. Methods The study was based on face-to-face surveys conducted by GUS (Statistics Poland) on 13,376 respondents in 2010 and 12,532 individuals in 2013. Results The percentage of people using dental services in the highest income group was approximately twice as high as that in the lowest one (Q1: 7.0% vs. Q5: 16.4%), with the same being true for education (the lowest education group: 8.3% vs. the highest education group: 18.0%), and place of residence (inhabitants of rural areas: 9.2% vs. inhabitants of largest cities: 15.9%) in 2013. The analysis has shown the disparities in not using dental services when in need to be less clear-cut. Conclusions The conducted research, based on two independent periods, a representative population sample, univariate analysis and the multivariate regression model has revealed pronounced social inequalities in dental care use. It is a challenge to determine the factors which contribute most to health inequalities and the interventions which are most effective in reducing them.

Keywords: Health disparities; Socioeconomic factors; Dental public health; Inequalities; Oral health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00038-020-01379-2 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ijphth:v::y::i::d:10.1007_s00038-020-01379-2

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/00038

DOI: 10.1007/s00038-020-01379-2

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Thomas Kohlmann, Nino Künzli and Andrea Madarasova Geckova

More articles in International Journal of Public Health from Springer, Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().