Socioeconomic inequalities in self-perceived oral health among adults in Chile

Gallego, Francisco; Larroulet, Cristián; Palomer, Leonor; Repetto, Andrea; Verdugo, Diego

doi:10.1186/s12939-017-0519-9

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 5 Determinants of SPOH. Selected questions

From: Socioeconomic inequalities in self-perceived oral health among adults in Chile

	Functional limitations				Physical pain		Physical disability		Social disability				Psychological disability		Handicap
	Sense of taste affected		Trouble pronouncing words		Painful ache		Interrupted meals		Irritable with others		Difficulties doing jobs		Embarrassment		Life less satisfying
	Coef.	p-value	Coef.	p-value	Coef.	p-value	Coef.	p-value	Coef.	p-value	Coef.	p-value	Coef.	p-value	Coef.	p-value
Education (base: Middle or less)
Incomplete secondary school	−0.012	0.904	0.033	0.810	0.049	0.604	−0.233	0.010	−0.088	0.454	−0.093	0.206	−0.027	0.825	−0.037	0.769
Complete secondary school	−0.040	0.714	−0.001	0.996	0.136	0.212	−0.386	0.000	−0.275	0.018	−0.233	0.003	−0.184	0.111	−0.271	0.009
Higher education	−0.159	0.139	−0.107	0.543	0.135	0.189	−0.396	0.002	−0.379	0.012	−0.324	0.001	−0.320	0.011	−0.435	0.001
Public health system
(base: Public Insurance A, most vulnerable)
Public Insurance B	0.007	0.928	−0.188	0.021	−0.130	0.111	−0.172	0.001	−0.201	0.002	−0.250	0.000	−0.142	0.047	−0.106	0.101
Public Insurance C	0.099	0.386	0.049	0.655	−0.051	0.640	−0.308	0.000	−0.240	0.021	−0.315	0.005	−0.238	0.035	−0.271	0.000
Public Insurance D	0.054	0.567	−0.012	0.926	−0.000	0.997	−0.164	0.028	−0.124	0.135	−0.234	0.036	−0.276	0.011	−0.123	0.207
Public Insurance unknown categ	−0.106	0.734	−6.045	0.000	−0.497	0.168	1.286	0.006	0.888	0.005	0.542	0.196	0.258	0.489	0.275	0.496
Children under 5	0.015	0.834	−0.032	0.603	0.062	0.329	0.281	0.000	0.197	0.004	0.217	0.000	0.227	0.002	0.245	0.000
Children aged 5–18	−0.032	0.276	−0.010	0.764	−0.021	0.338	0.057	0.053	0.044	0.099	0.072	0.005	0.068	0.002	0.052	0.093
Any frontal missing teeth	0.180	0.006	0.517	0.000	0.018	0.845	0.190	0.006	0.223	0.001	0.180	0.018	0.381	0.000	0.374	0.000
Caries (base: less than 6)
6–11	0.170	0.072	0.090	0.319	0.162	0.035	0.071	0.152	0.061	0.338	0.067	0.287	0.213	0.008	0.114	0.088
12 or more	0.132	0.483	0.254	0.280	0.317	0.055	0.218	0.178	0.242	0.100	0.545	0.001	0.735	0.012	0.666	0.000
Teeth lost by caries
6–11	0.035	0.564	0.188	0.021	0.022	0.738	0.174	0.028	0.160	0.079	0.174	0.004	0.385	0.000	0.240	0.000
12 or more	0.222	0.004	0.367	0.000	0.103	0.299	0.403	0.000	0.305	0.001	0.304	0.001	0.425	0.000	0.291	0.000
Malocclusion	−0.060	0.214	0.168	0.016	0.071	0.276	0.028	0.661	0.083	0.268	0.070	0.231	0.225	0.001	0.045	0.482
Observations	1,394		1,394		1,394		1,394		1,394		1,387		1,394		1,393
LR test indep equations	2.94	0.086	1.41	0.235	2.71	0.100	11.44	0.001	2.04	0.153	3.55	0.059	2.31	0.128	5.64	0.018

Abbreviations: Coef estimated coefficient
We report the estimated coefficients for ordered multinomial models corrected for sample selection. The dependent variables are OHIP-14 subcategory scores. Regressions include all variables listed in Table 4; we report those related to socioeconomic status, children in the household and oral health status

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