Medidas de desigualdad en salud bucal: una experiencia para los escolares de 12 años de la ciudad de montevideo, Uruguay
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The reduction of socioeconomic inequalities in oral health is a goal of the WHO for 2020 within the countries.
In this context, it is proposed to present an analysis methodology that allows creating indicators that are easy to measure.
and interpreted for clinical and managerial decision-making in oral health services, helping to reorient the public health policy decision-making towards a more equitable approach. From a set of measures of inequality, based on information theory, a series of indices are presented to measure gaps between different Geodemographic Units (GU).
The results presented arise from a population survey of Oral Health with a complex sample design in 12-year-old schoolchildren in the city of Montevideo. Through 4 Scenarios, 1 basal and 3 others that involve different forms of intervention to achieve a decrease in the prevalence of CARIES, it is shown that working at the level of the UG, the gaps that exist are not very important, whether the socioeconomic level is considered, or whether thesame. This suggests not working with natural UGs but with a classification of schools through some method of clustering. On the other hand, if one works at the individual level, the gaps that seemed not to exist appear, showing very different results, which are also good tracers to set intervention policies.
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- Measures of inequality in oral health: an experience for 12-year-old schoolchildren in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay
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