PMID- 15246325
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20041129
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1047-2797 (Print)
IS  - 1047-2797 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 6
DP  - 2004 Jul
TI  - Assessing the social class of children from parental information to study 
      possible social inequalities in health outcomes.
PG  - 378-84
AB  - PURPOSE: When the subjects are children, the assessment of social class must be 
      made indirectly from parental data. We propose correspondence analysis as a 
      method for combining parental information. METHODS: Four assessment methods were 
      used: father's occupation, mother's occupation, dominant occupation of both, and 
      both combined by means of a correspondence analysis. The results were used to 
      explore social inequalities in dental health. We used data from a survey 
      performed on school children (12- and 15-16-year olds) in the Comunitat 
      Valenciana (Spain). Dental health was measured through prevalence of caries, 
      number of teeth with caries, number of caries in permanent teeth, decayed, 
      missing, and filled teeth score (DMF-T), decayed, missing, and filled surface 
      score (DMF-S), prevalence of DMF>0, community periodontal index of treatment 
      needs (CPITN) and prevalence of CPITN>0. RESULTS: Correspondence analysis methods 
      reflect the impact of social class on health indicators. They were able to assign 
      a social group to all individuals. The association between social class and oral 
      health was found to be sensitive to the method used. CONCLUSIONS: Pooling 
      information from both parents is important. Evidence of social inequalities in 
      oral health may or may not be obtained depending on the method used.
FAU - Zurriaga, Oscar
AU  - Zurriaga O
AD  - Department of Epidemiology, Public Health Regional Authority, Regional Health 
      Department, Valencia, Spain. zurriaga_osc@gva.es
FAU - Martiinez-Beneito, Miguel A
AU  - Martiinez-Beneito MA
FAU - Abellan, Juan J
AU  - Abellan JJ
FAU - Carda, Carmen
AU  - Carda C
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Ann Epidemiol
JT  - Annals of epidemiology
JID - 9100013
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Dental Caries/epidemiology
MH  - *Dental Health Surveys
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Status
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Outcome Assessment, Health Care
MH  - Parents
MH  - Schools
MH  - *Social Class
MH  - Social Justice
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Spain/epidemiology
EDAT- 2004/07/13 05:00
MHDA- 2004/12/16 09:00
CRDT- 2004/07/13 05:00
PHST- 2003/02/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2003/06/30 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2004/07/13 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/12/16 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/07/13 05:00 [entrez]
AID - S1047279703002825 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.annepidem.2003.06.001 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ann Epidemiol. 2004 Jul;14(6):378-84. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2003.06.001.