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Determinants of Postponed Dental Visits Due to Costs: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Germany

High costs are an important reason patients postpone dental visits, which can lead to serious medical consequences. However, little is known about the determinants of postponing visits due to financial constraints longitudinally. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the determinants of pos...

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Autores principales: Aarabi, Ghazal, Valdez, Richelle, Spinler, Kristin, Walther, Carolin, Seedorf, Udo, Heydecke, Guido, König, Hans-Helmut, Hajek, André
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6765821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31510102
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183344
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author Aarabi, Ghazal
Valdez, Richelle
Spinler, Kristin
Walther, Carolin
Seedorf, Udo
Heydecke, Guido
König, Hans-Helmut
Hajek, André
author_facet Aarabi, Ghazal
Valdez, Richelle
Spinler, Kristin
Walther, Carolin
Seedorf, Udo
Heydecke, Guido
König, Hans-Helmut
Hajek, André
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description High costs are an important reason patients postpone dental visits, which can lead to serious medical consequences. However, little is known about the determinants of postponing visits due to financial constraints longitudinally. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the determinants of postponing dental visits due to costs in older adults in Germany longitudinally. Data from wave 5 and 6 of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe was used. The occurrence of postponed dental visits due to costs in the last 12 months served as the outcome measure. Socioeconomic and health-related explanatory variables were included. Conditional fixed effects logistic regression models were used (n = 362). Regressions showed that the likelihood of postponing dental visits due to costs increased with lower age, less chronic disease, and lower income. The outcome measure was neither associated with marital status nor self-rated health. Identifying the factors associated with postponed dental visits due to costs might help to mitigate this challenge. In the long term, this might help to maintain the well-being of older individuals.
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spelling pubmed-67658212019-09-30 Determinants of Postponed Dental Visits Due to Costs: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Germany Aarabi, Ghazal Valdez, Richelle Spinler, Kristin Walther, Carolin Seedorf, Udo Heydecke, Guido König, Hans-Helmut Hajek, André Int J Environ Res Public Health Article High costs are an important reason patients postpone dental visits, which can lead to serious medical consequences. However, little is known about the determinants of postponing visits due to financial constraints longitudinally. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the determinants of postponing dental visits due to costs in older adults in Germany longitudinally. Data from wave 5 and 6 of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe was used. The occurrence of postponed dental visits due to costs in the last 12 months served as the outcome measure. Socioeconomic and health-related explanatory variables were included. Conditional fixed effects logistic regression models were used (n = 362). Regressions showed that the likelihood of postponing dental visits due to costs increased with lower age, less chronic disease, and lower income. The outcome measure was neither associated with marital status nor self-rated health. Identifying the factors associated with postponed dental visits due to costs might help to mitigate this challenge. In the long term, this might help to maintain the well-being of older individuals. MDPI 2019-09-10 2019-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6765821/ /pubmed/31510102 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183344 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Valdez, Richelle
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Heydecke, Guido
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Hajek, André
Determinants of Postponed Dental Visits Due to Costs: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Germany
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title_full Determinants of Postponed Dental Visits Due to Costs: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Germany
title_fullStr Determinants of Postponed Dental Visits Due to Costs: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Germany
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of Postponed Dental Visits Due to Costs: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Germany
title_short Determinants of Postponed Dental Visits Due to Costs: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Germany
title_sort determinants of postponed dental visits due to costs: evidence from the survey of health, ageing, and retirement in germany
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6765821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31510102
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183344
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