[Contextual and individual inequalities in dental pain prevalence among Brazilian adults and elders].
This study aimed to assess the prevalence of dental pain among adults and older people living in Brazil's State capitals. Information was gathered from the Telephone Survey Surveillance System for Risk and Protective Factors for Chronic Diseases (VIGITEL) in 2009 (n = 54,367). Dental pain was the outcome. Geographic region, age, gender, race, schooling, private health coverage, smoking, and soft drink consumption were the explanatory variables. Multilevel Poisson regression models were performed. Prevalence of dental pain was 15.2%; Macapá and São Luís had prevalence rates greater than 20%; all capitals in the South and Southeast, plus Cuiabá, Campo Grande, Maceió, Recife, and Natal had prevalence rates less than 15%. Factors associated with increased prevalence of dental pain were the North and Northeast regions, female gender, black/brown skin color, lack of private health insurance, smoking, and soft drink consumption. Dental pain is a public health problem that should be monitored by health surveillance systems.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. mperes@ccs.ufsc.br
Marco A
MA
Peres
Betine Pinto Moehlecke
BP
Iser
Karen Glazer
KG
Peres
Deborah Carvalho
DC
Malta
José Leopoldo Ferreira
JL
Antunes
D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D003753:Dental Health Surveys; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013689:Telephone; D014098:Toothache / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055815:Young Adult