Browsing Centre for Dental Public Health and Primary Care by Subject "Child, Preschool"
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Assessing performance of the Healthcare Access and Quality Index, overall and by select age groups, for 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
(Elsevier, 2022-10-06)BACKGROUND: Health-care needs change throughout the life course. It is thus crucial to assess whether health systems provide access to quality health care for all ages. Drawing from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, ... -
An Assessment of Pediatric Dental Caries and Family Quality of Life in an Informal Amazonian Community.
(2021)BACKGROUND: Oral diseases are among the most prevalent non-communicable diseases worldwide, disproportionally affecting vulnerable populations. The Community of Claverito is one of many informal urban floating communities ... -
The burden of chronic respiratory diseases and their heterogeneity across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2016
(Elsevier, 2018-09-12)BACKGROUND: India has 18% of the global population and an increasing burden of chronic respiratory diseases. However, a systematic understanding of the distribution of chronic respiratory diseases and their trends over ... -
Children's toothache is becoming everybody's business: where do parents go when their children have oral pain in London, England? A cross-sectional analysis.
(2018-02-28)OBJECTIVES: To assess the number of parents who visited community pharmacies in London seeking pain medications for their children's pain and specifically for oral pain, to identify which health services parents contacted ... -
Dental caries and anthropometrics of children living in an informal floating Amazonian community: a cross-sectional pilot study.
(2022)AIMS: Increasing evidence supports a relationship between poor oral health and growth in children. Our objective was to assess the association between the presence of dental caries and anthropometric measurements of children ... -
Estimating mortality and disability in Peru before the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of the Disease Study 2019.
(2023)BACKGROUND: Estimating and analyzing trends and patterns of health loss are essential to promote efficient resource allocation and improve Peru's healthcare system performance. METHODS: Using estimates from the Global ... -
Evaluation of a pilot oral health promotion programme 'Keep Smiling': perspectives from GDPs, health champions and school staff.
(2015-04-24)OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a pilot oral health promotion programme (fluoride varnish and tooth brushing), targeting 3-7-year-olds in primary schools in a deprived area of London. METHOD: A pilot programme was conducted among ... -
Family functioning and dental caries among preschool children.
(2022-09)OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship of family functioning with dental caries among 3-4-year-olds and the role of family functioning in explaining the relationship of family socioeconomic status (SES) with childhood ... -
Family functioning and preschool children's oral health-related quality of life.
(2023-04)INTRODUCTION: Identifying which aspects of how a family functions are relevant to child oral health provides opportunities for interventions targeting the family context. The aim of this study was to investigate the ... -
Free Sugars Consumption around Bedtime and Dental Caries in Children: A Systematic Review.
(2018-04)This systematic review aimed to assess the association between food and drink consumption around bedtime-specifically, food and drinks containing free sugars-and the risk of dental caries in children. Five electronic ... -
Impact of oral clefts on the oral health-related quality of life of preschool children and their parents.
(2018-09)OBJECTIVE: To assess the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of preschool children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) and their relatives. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 55 2-5-year-old children ... -
Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
(Elsevier, 2020-05-06)BACKGROUND: Across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), one in ten deaths in children younger than 5 years is attributable to diarrhoea. The substantial between-country variation in both diarrhoea incidence and ... -
Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990-2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study
(Elsevier, 2017-11-14)BACKGROUND: 18% of the world's population lives in India, and many states of India have populations similar to those of large countries. Action to effectively improve population health in India requires availability of ... -
The Relationship between Obesity and Childhood Dental Caries in the United States.
(2022-12-02)Background: Childhood obesity and dental caries are prevalent chronic, multifactorial conditions with adverse health consequences and considerable healthcare costs. The aims of this study were: (1) to evaluate the relationship ... -
Subnational mapping of under-5 and neonatal mortality trends in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000-17
(Elsevier, 2020-05-12)BACKGROUND: India has made substantial progress in improving child survival over the past few decades, but a comprehensive understanding of child mortality trends at disaggregated geographical levels is not available. We ...