Testeo y adecuación de un modelo socioecológico para las enfermedades gingivo-periodontales en una población rural del noroeste argentino.

MAFFIA, MARTA; CARAMAGNA, DANTE; APEZTEGUÍA, M.; ZUBRZYCKI, BERNARDA; GARCÍA MANCUSO, ROCÍO

International Journal of Dental Anthropology

Syllaba Press

Año: 2001 p. 1 - 8

0124-7336

We intends in this work carried out in team between social anthropologists and odontologists, prove the socioecologic conceptual model for the periodontal illnesses proposed by Hansen, Bjertness and Gronnesby (1993), in a rural population of the Argentinean northwest. The model that includes four articles: organization of the care of the health, biological aspects, behavioral and environmental factors, it was reformulated in some aspects in relation to the group in study. The same one has been applied at random in a sample, the one that represents the total mature population´s 50% approximately. The investigation is based on a clinical exam, a survey and a series of interviews semi-structured. The test of Chi-square was used and of Fisher to analyze the relationships between each independent variable and the dependent variable (Periodontitis-Gingivitis). We was an association between the dependent variable and the school level, the conformity with the economic situation and the age.