Structural Determinants and Children’s Oral Health: A Cross-National Study

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Structural Determinants and Children’s Oral Health: A Cross-National Study

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Much research on children’s oral health has focused on proximal determinants at the expense of distal (upstream) factors. Yet, such upstream factors—the so-called structural determinants of health—play a crucial role. Children’s lives, and in turn their health, are shaped by politics, economic forces, and social and public policies. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between children’s clinical (number of decayed, missing, and filled teeth) and self-reported oral health (or...

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23 Oct, 2025

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Professor Sarah Baker / L. Foster / W.M. Thomson / T. Broomhead / K. Bekes / P.E. Benson / F. Aguilar-Diaz / L. Do / C. Hirsch / Z. Marshman / C. McGrath / A. Mohamed / P.G. Robinson / J. Traebert / B. Turton / B.J. Gibson

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Adolescent / Child / Cross-Sectional Studies / Delivery of Health Care / DMF Index / Female / Humans / Male / Oral Health / Public Policy / Quality of Life / Social Determinants of Health / adolescent / child / cross-sectional study / DMF index / female / health / health care delivery / human / legislation and jurisprudence / male / organization and management / public policy / quality of life / social determinants of health / statistics and numerical data / A990 - Medicine & dentistry not elsewhere classified

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