| Autor: |
Nyyssönen, V., Herranen, K., Letto, P., Rajala, M. |
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Community Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology; Aug1983, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p205-208, 4p |
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The aim of this study was to analyze the factors that affected the choice between public and private dental services in 1979, when 9% of adults had received their dental services in a public health center. In September 1979 the National Board of Health conducted a telephone interview among Finnish adults over 15 yr old. When a representative sample of 1992 adults was drawn, the response rate was 90.4%. All subjects over 17 yr of age who had used dental services within the last 5 yr were included in the study, making a final sample of 1368. According to the logistic function, the greatest differences were between rural and urban areas. Of the subjects living in urban areas, 18% had visited public health centers: and of those living in rural areas, 45 % had visited health centers. Of the adults living in an urban setting. 70% and in rural areas 49% visited private dentists. Of the subjects who had used private dental services, nearly half were managers and tipper white-collar workers; while of those using communal services, less than one third worked in such jobs. In urban areas managers and upper white-collar workers used private services twice as often as they used public services. In an urban setting, subjects who had visited a dentist during the last 2 yr had received treat went mainly in the private sector; and in a rural setting, subjects had been treated mainly in health centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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