Factors contributing to socioeconomic gradients in children's oral health between 1993 and 2003

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/453698

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The NHMRC and the Australian National Oral Health Plan have identified health inequalities as a critical health issue. Dental caries in children increasingly has become concentrated in disadvantaged population groups. While previous studies have documented socioeconomic gradients in oral health, few have sought to explain the reasons underlying those inequalities. By taking advantage of two existing datasets of child oral health in Australia, collected in 1992 and 2002, we will be able to quantify change in socioeconomic inequalities in oral health, and identify population-wide exposures to preventive practices and social circumstances that may have contributed to that change.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2007

End Date: 01-01-2008

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $79,532.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Public Health and Health Services

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Children health | Geographic variations | Health inequalities | Individual variations | Inequalities in health | Oral epidemiology | Oral health | Socioeconomic variations in health status

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