Oral Health Inequities Across the Lifecourse: Root Causes and Interventions
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Oral Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 December 2021) | Viewed by 3624
Special Issue Editors
2. Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry, and Innovation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Interests: epidemiology; epidemiologic methods; dental public health; health disparities; life course epidemiology; systematic review and meta analysis; social determinants of health
2. Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry, and Innovation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Interests: community-based participatory research; refugee and immigrant health; oral health; rural health; social epidemiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Poor oral health outcomes and inequitable access to affordable dental care unfairly and disproportionately impact historically racially minoritized and socially disadvantaged groups. Root causes of such health inequities extend beyond individual-level factors to include structural determinants, such as racism, that organize the distribution of power and resources differentially across dimensions of individual and group identities. This Special Issue of IJERPH invites the submission of papers focused on the structural determinants of oral health inequities across the lifecourse. We are specifically interested in papers that contribute to the evidence base on the psychosocial and environmental mechanisms underlying oral health inequities among socially disadvantaged groups, including minoritized sexual and gender identities, black, indigenous, and people of color. Papers that outline multilevel interventions and structural and/or community-based approaches to addressing oral health inequities will also be considered. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research is welcome.
Dr. Aderonke Akinkugbe
Dr. Dina T. Garcia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oral health
- vulnerable populations
- gender identity
- racism
- health resources
- dental care
