Kathryn Asbury, Tom McBride, Rosie Bawn
Can genomic research make a useful contribution to social policy?
Royal Society open science
association parental social capital childs access dental checkups reported studies focused dental checkups present study investigated association parental social capital access dental checkups among firstgrade elementary school children 67 years old japan analyzed crosssectional data firstgrade elementary school children 67 years old adachi city tokyo japan community social capital total score social trust cohesion mutual aid childs dental checkups dental checkups purposes treatment least year assessed questionnaire surveys parents first graders 69 elementary schools 2017 n 5260 response rate 816 2019 n 5130 response rate 788 multilevel poisson regression analysis adjusted childrens age months gender mothers educational attainment mothers employment status siblings living grandparents density dental clinics school district applied 7936 respondents included analysis 827 children received dental checkups least year individuallevel social capital positively associated childrens dental checkup utilization prevalence ratio pr 0935 per one interquartile range iqr 95 confidence interval ci 0877 0996 communitylevel social capital significantly associated childrens dental checkup utilization pr 0934 per one iqr 95 ci 0865 1008 promoting individuallevel social capital communitylevel social capital may improve dental checkups among elementary school children japan