Enfermedad periodontal: Enfoques epidemiológicos para su análisis como problema de salud pública

The way how health problems are defined allow conceptual and methodological developments that lead to different outcomes and specific analytical and preventive approaches to confront problems. This essay aims to show some of the main epidemiological approaches that have been used to address the oral health–disease process, in particular the periodontal disease. Regarding the latter, different approaches to their understanding are proposed, which have been influenced by the biological-curative model, whose scope is limited and focused on the identification of risk factors and on demonstrating causal relationships. However, more comprehensive alternatives are also portrayed from social epidemiology that include social determinants in the analysis of the health-disease process, which affects and influences this process in the communities. © 2018, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. All rights reserved.

• Autores: Pardo Romero, Fredy Fabian; Hernández L.J.
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UCC
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/42237
• Acceso en línea: https://doi.org/10.25097/rep.n31.2020.08; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/42237
• Palabra clave: epidemiology; global health; health; human; periodontal disease; public health; risk factor; social determinants of health; Epidemiologic Research Design; Global Health; Humans; Oral Health; Periodontal Diseases; Public Health; Risk Factors; Social Determinants of Health
• Rights: closedAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb