
School Hours Lost Due to Acute/Unplanned Dental Care
Objective: We estimated the school-hours lost for acute/unplanned dental care and examined the associated factors among children aged 5-17 years using 2008 National Health Interview Survey data. Methods: We used bivariate and multivariate regression models to investigate the associations
between school hours lost and socioeconomic and oral health factors (p < .05). Results: Acute/unplanned dental care accounted for a loss of 34 million school-hours annually. Compared to children with very good oral health, children with fair/poor oral health were 2.8 times more likely to
lose ≥1 hours. Children in high-income families had 31% less likelihood of losing any school hours due to acute dental care than those in low-income families. Conclusion: Numerous school-hours are lost due to acute/unplanned dental care and socioeconomic disparities exist in those lost
hours.
Keywords: DENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITIES; NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD INTERVIEW SURVEY; SCHOOL ABSENTEEISM; SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: March 1, 2018
- Health Behavior and Policy Review is a rigorously peer-reviewed scholarly bi-monthly publication that seeks manuscripts on health behavior or policy topics that represent original research, including papers that examine the development, advocacy, implementation, or evaluation of policies around specific health issues. The Review especially welcomes papers that tie together health behavior and policy recommendations. Articles are available through subscription or can be ordered individually from the Health Behavior and Policy Review site.
- Editorial Board
- Information for Authors
- Submit a Paper
- Subscribe to this Title
- Terms & Conditions
- Associate Editors
- Institutional Subscription
- PDF Policy
- Ingenta Connect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites
- Access Key
- Free content
- Partial Free content
- New content
- Open access content
- Partial Open access content
- Subscribed content
- Partial Subscribed content
- Free trial content