Reports Summarize Managed Care Findings from National University of Colombia (Income Inequality and Early Childhood Caries In Colombia: a Multilevel Analysis): Managed Care

2022 JUL 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Managed Care. According to news reporting from Bogota, Colombia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The association between income inequality and dental caries on early childhood in Colombia was evaluated using a multi-level analysis. We analyzed data from the latest national oral survey (2014) and information about income in absolute and relative terms on a state-level.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the National University of Colombia, “The outcomes were caries experience, and untreated caries. A multilevel logistic regression model was used (2 levels) with children/households nested within states. Age, gender, area-level socioeconomic position (SEP), household income and health insurance regime were the level 1 explanatory variables. For level 2, variables were the Gini coefficient, Unsatisfied Basic Needs (UBN) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Data from 5.250 children, aged 1, 3 and 5 years were evaluated. Prevalence of caries experience and untreated caries was 36.9% and 33.0% respectively. Both outcomes showed significant associations with age, low SEP and belonging to the subsidized health insurance regime: untreated dental caries was associated with living in low and very low SEP (OR: 1.72; 95%CI 1.42, 2.07 and OR: 1.69; 95%CI 1.36, 2.09 respectively), and subsidized health insurance scheme (OR: 1.58; 95%CI 1.11, 2.24).”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “When the Gini, GDP and UBN indicators were included in the models, no significant associations were found.”

For more information on this research see: Income Inequality and Early Childhood Caries In Colombia: a Multilevel Analysis. Ciencia & Saude Coletiva, 2022;27(6):2325-2336. Ciencia & Saude Coletiva can be contacted at: Abrasco-assoc Brasileira Pos-graduacao & Saude Coletiva, Avenida Brasil, 4036, Sala 700 Manguinhos-1, Rio De Janeiro, 21040-36, Brazil.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Mauricio Rodriguez-Godoy, National University, Carrera 45, 26-85 Edificio Uriel Gutierrez, Bogota, Colombia. Additional authors for this research include Laura Marcela Navarro-Saiz, Carol Cristina Guarnizo-Herreno and Juan Pablo Alzate.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232022276.18452021. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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