The General and Oral Health Status in Older Adults from Rural Environment of Iasi County, Romania
Autori:
Elena Mihaela CARAUSU, Cristina Gena DASCALU, Georgeta ZEGAN,
Lucian Stefan BURLEA, Iulian Costin LUPU, Ileana ANTOHE
Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 187-208
How to cite this article:Carausu, E.M., Dascalu, C.G., Zegan, G., Burlea, L.S., Lupu, I.C., Antohe, I. (2017). The General and Oral Health Status in Older Adults from Rural Environment of Iasi County, Romania. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 59, 187-208. |
Abstract:
The older adults present different combinations of chronic multi-morbidity
and functional limitations which determines health and social problems. The aim
of the study was to assess the health status (general and oral) of the older adults
because it can offer valuable information for estimation of the necessary health
services. The targeted objectives were: the evaluation of oral morbidity, oral
health related behaviors and attitudes towards oral health; evaluation of general
morbidity; study of the addressability to health services and evaluation supplying
medicines for rural area. From January–December 2016, we conducted a prevalence
study focused on the main indicators of morbidity (general and oral). In
our study were included 196 subjects, aged 65-74 years, 45.41% males, 54.59%
females, from the rural community of Iasi County, in North Eastern region of
Romania. In the studied group, the general morbidity model was the same for both
male and female gender: in male gender, the morbidity was dominated by the
cardiovascular diseases (63.24%), chronic digestive diseases (33.82%), diabetes
mellitus (29.41%), osteoarticular diseases (27.94%), accidents and traumatisms
(26.47%) and chronic respiratory diseases (23.53%); in female gender, it was also
dominated by the cardiovascular diseases (67.82%), followed by diabetes mellitus (32.18%), osteoarticular diseases (31.03%) and chronic digestive diseases (24.14%).
The oral morbidity model was relatively different between genders. At male
gender, the predominant diseases were: dental caries (57.30%), lip and mucosal
diseases (28.09%, OR=1.51, p<0.05), trauma (24.24%, OR=2.68, p<0.05) and
total edentulism (25.84%). At female gender, the predominant diseases were:
caries disease (59.81%), non-carious dental disorders (42.67%), periodontal disease
(41.33%, OR=1.48, p<0.05) and total edentulism (29.91%.
Keywords:
public health, rural health, geriatric population, general and oral morbidity, dentistry.
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