Socioeconomic status and oral health - A review

ISBN-13: 9786139954520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 112 str.

Arun Singh Thakur; DEEPAK KUMAR SINGHAL

Opis

The socioeconomic status of individual and health, including oral health, are correlated and this documentation is well established in the literature over the years. The conventional measures of socioeconomic status such as social class and household income have a number of weaknesses so that alternatives, in the form of area-based measures of deprivation, are increasingly being used. This book explains the various socioeconomic scales and aim to review, appraise evidence from scientific studies in order to provide informative empirical answers regarding association of socioeconomic status and oral health.

O autorze

Thakur, Arun Singh
Dr Arun Singh Thakur MDS studied Public Health Dentistry at MCODS, Manipal and is a Reader at Department of Public Health Dentistry, Government Dental College, Shimla. Dr Deepak Kumar Singhal MDS studied Public Health Dentistry and is an Associate Professor at Dept of Public Health Dentistry, MCODS, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education.