Oral health-related stigma: Describing and defining a ubiquitous phenomenon

J. Doughty; M. E. Macdonald; V. Muirhead; R. Freeman

doi:10.1111/cdoe.12893

Oral health-related stigma: Describing and defining a ubiquitous phenomenon

J. Doughty (Lead / Corresponding author)
, M. E. Macdonald
, V. Muirhead
, R. Freeman

Dentistry

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Abstract

This paper is the fourth of a series of narrative reviews to critically rethink underexplored concepts in oral health research. The series commenced with an initial commissioned framework of Inclusion Oral Health, which spawned further exploration into the social forces that undergird social exclusion and othering. The second review challenged unidimensional interpretations of the causes of inequality by bringing intersectionality theory to oral health. The third exposed how language, specifically labels, can perpetuate and (re)produce vulnerability by eclipsing the agency and power of vulnerabilised populations. In this fourth review, we revisit othering, depicted in the concept of stigma. We specifically define and conceptualize oral health-related stigma, bringing together prior work on stigma to advance the robustness and utility of this theory for oral health research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1078-1083
Number of pages	6
Journal	Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
Volume	51
Issue number	6
Early online date	18 Jul 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12893
Publication status	Published - Dec 2023

UN SDGs

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

dental health
psychosocial aspects of oral health

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Dentistry

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