TY - JOUR
T1 - Oral Health Status, Oral Health Behaviours and Oral Health Care Utilisation Among Migrants Residing in Europe
T2 - A Systematic Review
AU - Pabbla, Amandeep
AU - Duijster, Denise
AU - Grasveld, Alice
AU - Sekundo, Caroline
AU - Agyemang, Charles
AU - van der Heijden, Geert
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - As the reported data on oral health status among the migrants in Europe is fragmented, we systematically reviewed the published literature on the oral health status, behaviours and care utilisation among migrants residing in Europe. For this, we retrieved publications from PubMed and EMBASE, supplemented by manual citation screening and grey literature search on Google scholars. Two independent reviewers screened the studies, extracted data and critically appraised the publications. A total of 69 studies included showed higher dental caries among migrant children. But some studies on adolescents and adults reported similar or even better oral health among migrants compared to the host population, while other reported the opposite. Poor oral health behaviours were generally reported among the migrants and they frequently made use of emergency service utilisation compared to the host population. We shed light on the gaps in dental literature and make some recommendations for the future.
AB - As the reported data on oral health status among the migrants in Europe is fragmented, we systematically reviewed the published literature on the oral health status, behaviours and care utilisation among migrants residing in Europe. For this, we retrieved publications from PubMed and EMBASE, supplemented by manual citation screening and grey literature search on Google scholars. Two independent reviewers screened the studies, extracted data and critically appraised the publications. A total of 69 studies included showed higher dental caries among migrant children. But some studies on adolescents and adults reported similar or even better oral health among migrants compared to the host population, while other reported the opposite. Poor oral health behaviours were generally reported among the migrants and they frequently made use of emergency service utilisation compared to the host population. We shed light on the gaps in dental literature and make some recommendations for the future.
KW - Europe
KW - Migrants
KW - Oral health behaviours
KW - Oral health care utilisation
KW - Oral health status
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-020-01056-9
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-020-01056-9
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32686073
SN - 1557-1912
VL - 23
SP - 373
EP - 388
JO - Journal of immigrant and minority health
JF - Journal of immigrant and minority health
IS - 2
ER -