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Accessibility of dental services according to family income in a non-insured population

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  • Grytten, Jostein
  • Holst, Dorthe
  • Laake, Petter

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The aim of this study was to examine the effect of family income on accessibility to dental services among adults in Norway. The analyses was performed on a set of national data collected in 1989, which was representative of the non-institutionalized Norwegian population aged 20 years and above. The sample size was 1200 individuals. The data were analyzed according to a two-part model. The first part determined the probability of whether the consumer had demanded the services or not during the last year according to family income. The second part estimated how the amount of services utilized depended on family income, for those with demand. The elasticity of the odds of having demanded the services with respect to family income was 0.48. Family income had no effect on the amount of services utilized. Additional analyses also showed that there was no effect of family income on the probability of having received a filling or a crown when visiting the dentist. In Norway, almost all costs for dental services are paid by the consumer. It is not possible from the data alone to say whether subsidized dental care is an effective way of reducing the inequalities in demand.

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  • Grytten, Jostein & Holst, Dorthe & Laake, Petter, 1993. "Accessibility of dental services according to family income in a non-insured population," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 37(12), pages 1501-1508, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:37:y:1993:i:12:p:1501-1508
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    1. Gross, Christiane & Schübel, Thomas & Hoffmann, Rasmus, 2015. "Picking up the pieces—Applying the DISEASE FILTER to health data," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 119(4), pages 549-557.
    2. Whittaker, William & Birch, Stephen, 2012. "Provider incentives and access to dental care: Evaluating NHS reforms in England," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 75(12), pages 2515-2521.
    3. Jostein Grytten & Gunnar Rongen & Oyvind Asmyhr, 1996. "Subsidized dental care for young men: Its impact on utilization and dental health," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 5(2), pages 119-128, March.
    4. Jostein Grytten & Rune Sørensen, 2000. "Competition and dental services," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 9(5), pages 447-461, July.

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