The mediating role of social capital in socioeconomic inequalities of oral health behaviours among Brazilian older adults.
Orlando Luiz do Amaral JuniorMaria Laura Braccini FagundesGabriele Rissotto MenegazzoJessye Melgarejo do Amaral GiordaniPublished in: Community dentistry and oral epidemiology (2022)
The findings demonstrate that structural social capital in older Brazilian adults might partly mediate the pathways to socioeconomic inequalities in oral health behaviours. However, there is a direct effect on oral health behaviours, reinforcing the hypothesis that SES is associated with oral health, based on paths that link income inequality to oral health.