The Detroit Center for Research on Oral Health Disparities aims to promote oral health and reduce disparities within the community of low-income African American children (0-5 years) and their main caregivers (14+ years). The driving theme of the center's research program is to identify determinants and design interventions to answer the question: why do some low-income African American children and their main caregivers have better oral health than others who live in the same community? The center includes 3 support cores, 5 research core projects and 1 pilot study. Project #1, Socio-cultural Determinants, Context of Parenting, and Children's Oral Health, seeks to understand the process by which social location translates into poor oral health by examining the influence of material and social context at the individual and neighborhood levels and caregiver behaviors and beliefs on oral health.
For more information please contact: Kristine Siefert or David Williams