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KMID : 1023420160160050378
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Journal of Dental Hygiene Science
2016 Volume.16 No. 5 p.378 ~ p.383
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Correlation between Oral Health Condition and Life Quality Related to General Health Using EuroQol-5 Dimension
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An Eun-Suk
Kim Ki-Eun
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Abstract
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With change in the pattern of disease occurrence and increase in the interest in health, efforts to assess the health status on patients covering theirsubjective awareness at the same time as clinical and objective evaluation on health are continued. To measure health-related quality of life canbe one of these efforts. This study was performed to evaluate the relevance of the quality of overall health-related-life and oral health condition. Alsothe second year (2014) materials in the 6th the National Health and Nutrition Survey were applied to this study. The factors affecting general healthrelated quality of life measured by EuroQol-5 dimension (EQ-5D) have been confirmed by gender, age, education level, income level, private healthinsurance, perceived health status, toothache experience during the last 1 year, remaining tooth number. As oral health plays an important role indetermining the overall health conditions, objective oral health state influences the whole body health. Hence, it can be regarded that oral healthis ultimately related to the general health-related quality of life.
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KEYWORD
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EuroQol-5 dimension, Health related quality of life, Oral health
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