2007
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2007000100014
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Contexto sócio-econômico e percepção da saúde bucal em uma população de adultos no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: uma análise multinível

Abstract: Pró-Saúde" censuses I and II and residing in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1999 (n = 2,426) IntroduçãoQuando o objetivo central de um estudo epidemiológico é investigar efeitos do meio social, econômico ou ambiental na saúde de uma população, estudos ecológicos são considerados os delineamentos mais apropriados 1 . Porém, muito se debate a respeito da fragilidade dos desenhos ecológicos quando se quer estimar o efeito contextual de uma exposição na saúde de indivíduos como, por exemplo, o efeito da… Show more

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“…In this study we confirmed the association between dental caries and income inequality reported elsewhere 33,34,35,36 . No previous studies explored lagged associations, and all used only contemporary inequality.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
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“…In this study we confirmed the association between dental caries and income inequality reported elsewhere 33,34,35,36 . No previous studies explored lagged associations, and all used only contemporary inequality.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
“…One possible explanation for these non-significant findings is related to the area size; it has been postulated that such an association is more likely to be found in large areas 5,39 . However, the association between income inequality and dental caries has been reported in other Brazilian studies in areas smaller than those in the present study 33,34,35,36,37 .…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 71%
“…Other reports, aimed at verifying the effects of contextual variables on the odds of the individuals' negative perception of oral health, with control of individual dimension factors, have concluded that individual socio-economic attributes have greater explanatory power as to the variation in perceived oral health than the socioeconomic contexts of the areas of residence, when comparing the different geographic structures of the data, such as administrative regions, neighbourhoods and census tracts 26,39 .…”
Section: Variablesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Studies of greater complexity in Brazil, using multilevel analysis, have proposed the elucidation of hypotheses of association between contextual and individual factors in subjects' perception of their general 23 and oral health 26 . Their authors have compared the different geographical structures of data (administrative regions, neighbourhoods or census tracts) with the purpose of verifying the effects of individual and contextual variables on the odds of individuals having a negative or positive perception.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Estudos sobre a autopercepção em saúde mostram a relação de alguns fatores clínicos, como número de dentes cariados, perdidos ou restaurados, com fatores subjetivos, como sintomas das doenças e capacidade de sorrir, falar ou mastigar sem problemas (6,7). Todavia, pesquisas que relacionam a autopercepção de saúde bucal com o edentulismo, mostram que a maioria das pessoas vê sua condição bucal de maneira favorável, mesmo em condições clínicas não satisfatórias (8,9,10,11,12).…”
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