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Oral Health, Longevity and Quality of Life

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International Handbook of Health Expectancies

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The negative impact of poor oral health on the quality of life of older adults has become an increasingly important public health issue, given the relationship between oral health and poor quality of life at older ages, as well as the necessity for good oral health to maintain a healthy diet. The chapter will first review the evidence of the relationship between oral health and morbidity and mortality separately. Then we will examine the association between oral health and health expectancy in two ways. Firstly, as has previously been reported, we will consider oral health as a risk factor, thereby examining health expectancy by oral health status. Secondly, we use oral health status as an outcome and calculate oral health expectancy, that is years lived in different oral health statuses; to date, there are no published papers using this method.

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  1. Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chi-Tsun Chiu

  2. Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Angelique Wei-Ming Chan

  3. College of Economics, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasuhiko Saito

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  1. Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

    Carol Jagger

  2. Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Eileen M. Crimmins

  3. College of Economics, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasuhiko Saito

  4. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

    Renata Tiene De Carvalho Yokota  & Herman Van Oyen  & 

  5. Department of Sociology, Interface Demography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Renata Tiene De Carvalho Yokota

  6. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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  7. Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) and Ecole pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Paris, France

    Jean-Marie Robine

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Chiu, CT., Chan, A.WM., Saito, Y. (2020). Oral Health, Longevity and Quality of Life. In: Jagger, C., Crimmins, E.M., Saito, Y., De Carvalho Yokota, R.T., Van Oyen, H., Robine, JM. (eds) International Handbook of Health Expectancies. International Handbooks of Population, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37668-0_21

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