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



Doughty, J ORCID: 0000-0003-1445-9376, Macdonald, ME, Muirhead, V ORCID: 0000-0003-1632-773X and Freeman, R ORCID: 0000-0002-8733-1253
(2023) Oral health-related stigma: Describing and defining a ubiquitous phenomenon. Community dentistry and oral epidemiology, 51 (6). pp. 1078-1083.

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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.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Humans, Oral Health, Social Stigma
Divisions: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Life Courses and Medical Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Life Courses and Medical Sciences > School of Dentistry
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 28 Jul 2023 14:36
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2024 03:31
DOI: 10.1111/cdoe.12893
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12893
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3171980