Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in dental caries in Iran: cross-sectional results from the PERSIAN cohort study.
Farid NajafiSatar RezaeiMohammad HajizadehMoslem SoofiYahya SalimiAli Kazemi KaryaniShahin SoltaniSina AhmadiEnayatollah Homaie RadBehzad Karami MatinYahya PasdarBehrooz HamzehMehdi Moradi NazarAli MohammadiHossein PoustchiNazgol Motamed-GorjiAlireza MoslemAli Asghar KhaleghiMohammad Reza FatthiJavad Aghazadeh-AttariAli AhmadiFarhad PourfarziMohammad Hossein SomiMehrnoush SohrabAlireza Ansari-MoghadamFarhad EdjtehadiAli EsmaeiliFarahnaz JoukarMohammad Hasan LotfiTeamur AghamolaeiSaied EslamiSeyed Hamid Reza TabatabaeeNader SakiAli Akbar HaghdostPublished in: Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique (2020)
It is recommended to focus on the dental caries status of socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in order to reduce socioeconomic-related inequality in oral health among Iranian adults. Reducing socioeconomic-related inequalities in dental caries should be accompanied by appropriate health promotion policies that focus actions on the fundamental socioeconomic causes of dental disease.