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Volume
7: No. 3, May 2010
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Social Disparities in
Dental Insurance and Annual Dental Visits Among Medically Insured Patients
With Diabetes: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE) Survey
| Characteristic |
Insured, %
(95% Confidence Interval) |
Uninsured, %
(95% Confidence Interval) |
| Race/ethnicity |
| African American |
72 (70-74) |
52 (48-56) |
| Latino |
77 (75-78) |
60 (57-63) |
| White |
76 (75-77) |
65 (63-66) |
| Chinese |
85 (82-88) |
56 (50-62) |
| Filipino |
82 (79-84) |
67 (61-73) |
| Other |
75 (74-77) |
55 (52-57) |
| Education level |
| No high school diploma |
76 (74-77) |
52 (49-55) |
| High school diploma or GED |
74 (73-75) |
55 (52-57) |
| Some college |
77 (76-79) |
58 (56-61) |
| College graduate |
84 (83-86) |
71 (68-73) |
| Household income |
| <$15,000 |
70 (68-73) |
51 (48-54) |
| $15,000-$24,999 |
73 (70-75) |
50 (47-53) |
| $25,000-$34,999 |
75 (74-77) |
54 (51-57) |
| $35,000-$64,999 |
81 (80-82) |
65 (62-67) |
| ≥$65,000 |
88 (87-89) |
75 (72-77) |
Figure. Predicted probabilities for an annual dental visit from logistic regression model, stratified by having dental insurance, using age, sex, annual income, education level, and race/ethnicity (model takes into account nonproportional sampling fractions due to oversampling by race). A subgroup meets the Healthy People 2010 goal if prevalence of annual dental visit is 71% or more. Abbreviation: GED,
General Educational Development certificate.
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