Developing a Research Agenda on the Political Economy of Immigrants’ Oral Health

Paola Calvasina, Denise Gastaldo, Carlos Quiñonez, Carles Muntaner

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    Abstract

    Acculturation has been widely used in health research to explain oral health disparities between immigrants and their native born counterparts. However, immigrants’ oral health studies have not clearly defined the acculturation construct. Also, a narrow focus on cultural oral health behaviours is likely to be inadequate for explaining immigrants’ oral health inequities, which are also rooted in societal, political and economic factors produced across the globe. In this brief report, we discuss the use of the acculturation framework in the dental public health literature, note gaps in this approach, and argue for the need to incorporate the political economy lens to help better understand the complexities of immigrants’ oral health.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)759-761
    Number of pages3
    JournalJournal of Immigrant and Minority Health
    Volume20
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018 Jun 1

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    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

    Keywords

    • Immigrants
    • Oral health
    • Political economy

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Epidemiology
    • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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