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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.262
igaa057.262
Abstracts
Session 2859 (Poster)
Health Care, Promotion, and Social Service Delivery
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Oral Health Disparities Among Chinese Older Adults: Evidence From CHARLS
Han Chengming  
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”80 80
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
This paper explored the effect of the type of health insurance on dentist visits among older adults in China. The data were drawn from the CHARLS-II (2013). The sample included older adults aged 60 and older (N= 6767, n(urban)=3272, n(rural)=3495). Multivariate logistic regression models indicated that in urban and rural places, respondents with a governmental/civil servants’ insurance and those with an urban-employee insurance are more likely to visit a dentist in the survey year. Household registration status (hukou) does not play a significant role in dentist visits when insurance types are adjusted for. In other words, employment status, and the coverage of health insurance presented more significant effects on dentist visits. Differing from previous studies about urban-rural health disparities, this study disclosed substantial institutional influences on dental care access among older adults.