Widström E
Swed Dent J Suppl. 1983;19:88p.
In recent decades Sweden has become an immigrant country. The proportion of persons of foreign origin in the population has risen from 0.5% in the 1940s to slightly more than 10% in the early 1980s. Migration to Sweden is a part of the extensive international migration of labour that has occurred in Europe since the Second World War. Almost half of the immigrants in Sweden come from Finland. The common Nordic Labour market since 1954 allows free migration of nordic citizens. No comprehensive dental health studies have been performed on immigrants in Sweden. The aim of this study was to assess and analyse the dental situation and utilization of dental services by Finnish immigrants to Stockholm county. Three different methods were used to gather dental epidemiological data. A clinical examination of an age-stratified random sample consisting of 170 adult Finnish citizens living at Huddinge, a suburb of Stockholm, provided data on the oral health during 1977. A questionnaire survey of a random sample of 1332, 20-59 yr old Finnish citizens in the same community in 1981 provided information on utilization of dental services, dental visiting behaviour and factors which determined this and also on perceived treatment needs in this population group. Finally, a comparison of use of dental services by and treatment provided to all Finnish citizens aged between 17-64 yr, born on the 20th of any month and living in the County of Stockholm, and to a matched comparison group of Swedes, was based on data from 1975. National health statistics, available since the introduction of the Dental Insurance scheme in Sweden, were used. A longitudinal follow-up survey of utilization of dental services and secular changes in dental attendance in 1976-1980 by 1152 settled Finnish immigrants, selected in the afore mentioned way, and a Swedish comparison group was also done using the same information source. The results of the investigations can be summarized as follows: The clinical and questionnaire studies revealed poorer oral health i.e., number of teeth and more untreated caries in the group studied than has been shown in epidemiological surveys on Swedish populations. The questionnaire study showed that about 23% of the respondents had not visited a dentist in Sweden. These were often recently immigrated and had poor knowledge of Swedish. About 23% of the respondents had sometimes used the Finnish dental services and 5.5% did so regularly while living in Sweden.
近几十年来，瑞典已成为一个移民国家。外国血统人口在总人口中的比例已从20世纪40年代的0.5%上升至20世纪80年代初的略高于10%。向瑞典的移民是自第二次世界大战以来在欧洲发生的大规模国际劳动力迁移的一部分。瑞典近一半的移民来自芬兰。自1954年以来的北欧共同劳动力市场允许北欧公民自由迁移。瑞典尚未对移民进行全面的牙齿健康研究。本研究的目的是评估和分析斯德哥尔摩郡芬兰移民的牙齿状况和牙科服务利用情况。我们使用了三种不同的方法来收集牙齿流行病学数据。对居住在斯德哥尔摩郊区胡丁厄的170名成年芬兰公民进行年龄分层随机抽样的临床检查，提供了1977年期间的口腔健康数据。1981年对同一社区1332名20至59岁芬兰公民的随机样本进行问卷调查，提供了牙科服务利用情况、看牙行为以及决定这些行为的因素的信息，还提供了该人群组中感知到的治疗需求的信息。最后，根据1975年的数据，对所有17至64岁、出生于任何月份的第20日且居住在斯德哥尔摩郡的芬兰公民以及与之匹配的瑞典对照组的牙科服务使用情况和接受的治疗进行了比较。使用了自瑞典引入牙科保险计划以来可获得的国家健康统计数据。还对1152名以上述方式选定的定居芬兰移民及其瑞典对照组在1976 - 1980年期间的牙科服务利用情况和看牙次数的长期变化进行了跟踪调查，信息来源相同。调查结果可总结如下：临床和问卷调查研究表明，与瑞典人群的流行病学调查相比，所研究群体的口腔健康状况较差，即牙齿数量较少且未治疗的龋齿较多。问卷调查显示，约23%的受访者在瑞典未看过牙医。这些人往往是最近移民的，对瑞典语了解甚少。约23%的受访者有时使用芬兰的牙科服务，5.5%的人在瑞典居住期间经常这样做。
