Dr Wael Sabbah
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Name: Wael Sabbah |
Email: w.sabbah@ucl.ac.uk |
| Title: Dr | Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5671 internal x 45671 |
| Position: | Fax: +44 (0)20 7813 0242 |
| Department: Epidemiology & Public Health, Div of Population Health | Address: Dental Public Health, 1 - 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB |
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Research Theme: Population health |
Web Page: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dph |
Research & Teaching Profile
| Research Interests: Inequality in oral health; Social determinants of oral health- related behaviour and use of services; Ethnic variation in oral health; Correlation between oral and general health. |
| Research Description: I use data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine psychosocial models towards oral health and related behaviours. I also work on the validation of a new oral health quality of life index for children, using data from Glasgow. |
| UCL Collaborators: Professor Richard Watt, Professor Aubrey Sheiham, Dr. Georgios Tsakos, Dr Yvonne Kelly, Dr. Tarani Chandola |
| External Collaborators: Professor Tim Newton, Professor Ichiro Kawachi, Dr. Ichizo Morita |
| Conditions: Periodontal disease, perceived oral health, tooth loss, oral health inequality |
| Methods: Population Survey methods, Psychosocial modelling, Multilevel models |
| Keywords: Dentistry, oral epidemiology, outcome evaluation, social gradients, socioeconomic inequality in oral health |
| Education Interests: Oral epidemiology, oral health outcome evaluation |
| Education Description: I co-supervise MSc students and participate in teaching epidemiology to MSc students. |
| Publications List: Generated from the UCL research publications database. |
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