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January 2005, Vol 95, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 73-75
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.025403

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

A Longitudinal Analysis of Unmet Need for Oral Treatment in a National Sample of Medical HIV Patients

Marvin Marcus, DDS, MPH, Carl A. Maida, PhD, Ian D. Coulter, PhD, James R. Freed, DDS, MPH, Claudia Der-Martirosian, PhD, Honghu Liu, PhD, Benjamin A. Freed, BS, Norma Guzmán-Becerra, MS and Ronald M. Andersen, PhD

At the time of this study, Marvin Marcus, Carl A. Maida, Ian D. Coulter, James R. Freed, Claudia Der-Martirosian, Benjamin A. Freed, and Norma Guzmán-Becerra were with the School of Dentistry, Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles. Honghu Liu is with the Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine/Health Services Research, and Ronald M. Andersen is with the School of Public Health, Division of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Marvin Marcus, DDS, MPH, UCLA School of Dentistry, Box 951668, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1668 (e-mail: mamarcus{at}ucla.edu).

This longitudinal study examines perceived unmet dental need in a nationally representative probability sample of HIV-infected persons in medical care. A logistic regression analysis modeled the relationship between unmet need and explanatory variables. We estimate that 40% of HIV/AIDS patients report an unmet need associated with being male, being unemployed, injecting drugs, being heterosexual, lacking dental insurance, and having less education. Disparities in unmet need are related to socioeconomic status rather than to disease stage or ethnicity.




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J. R. FREED, M. MARCUS, B. A. FREED, C. DER-MARTIROSIAN, C. A. MAIDA, F. S. YOUNAI, J. M. YAMAMOTO, I. D. COULTER, and M. F. SHAPIRO
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J Am Dent Assoc, October 1, 2005; 136(10): 1396 - 1405.
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