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

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3050
igaa057.3050
Abstracts
Session 7615 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Social Stratification and Tooth Loss Among Migrant and Non-Migrant Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China
Qu Xiaomin 1 Wu Bei 2 Yu Jiaojiao 3 Zhang Haidong 4 1 
East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China
2 
New York University, New York, New York, United States
3 
School of History and Ethnology, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun, Guizhou, China
4 
School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”833 833
© 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 study investigated the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and tooth loss in middle-aged and older adults by migrant status. The sample included 2,390 participants aged 45-65 from the 2017 Urbanization and New Migrant Survey conducted from 10 cities in China. Results from the negative binomial regression and the marginal effect analysis showed that education, income, and residence in a developed city were negatively associated with tooth loss for non-migrants and migrants with high levels of education. These associations were not found to be significant for migrants with low education levels. The findings suggest that SES plays a more significant role in tooth retention for migrants with higher education levels compared to those with lower education levels. These results may largely be due to different levels of health literacy and unequal access to dental care services. Tailored intervention needs to be target migrant populations with low SES.