Contextual inequalities in specialized dental public health care in Brazil
Ana Luiza Cardoso PIRES,
Francine dos Santos COSTA,
Otávio Pereira D’ÁVILA
et al.
Abstract:The present study aimed to investigate the contextual inequalities of specialized public dental care (SPDC) in Brazil. The outcome was the trajectory of dental specialized production in municipalities with SPDC (from 2015 to 2017) obtained by group-based trajectory modeling. A Poisson regression model was used to analyze the factors associated with the high trajectory of SPDC production. The inequality indicators for SPDC production were the slope index and the concentration index according to contextual facto… Show more
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