Private dental insurance expenditure in Brazil

Revista de saúde pública
Andreia Morales CascaesAluísio J D Barros

Abstract

OBJECTIVE To quantify the household expenditure per capita and to estimate the percentage of Brazilian households that have spent with dental insurance. METHODS We analyzed data from 55,970 households that participated in the research Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares in 2008-2009. We have analyzed the annual household expenditure per capita with dental insurance (business and private) according to the Brazilian states and the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the households (sex, age, race, and educational level of the head of the household, family income, and presence of an older adult in the household). RESULTS Only 2.5% of Brazilian households have reported spending on dental insurance. The amount spent per capita amounted to R$5.10 on average, most of which consisted of private dental insurance (R$4.70). Among the characteristics of the household, higher educational level and income were associated with higher spending. São Paulo was the state with the highest household expenditure per capita (R$10.90) and with the highest prevalence of households with expenditures (4.6%), while Amazonas and Tocantins had the lowest values, in which both spent less than R$1.00 and had a prevalence of less than 0.1% of househ...Continue Reading

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Mar 3, 2019·Dentistry Journal·Mainul HaqueSeraj Zohurul Haque
Aug 23, 2019·Brazilian Oral Research·Patrícia Azevedo LinoMauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu
Nov 30, 2019·Ciência & saúde coletiva·Livia Fernandes ProbstAlessandro Diogo De Carli
Mar 16, 2021·Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology·Luciane Maria Pilotto, Roger Keller Celeste

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