Child Dental Benefits Schedule Subsidised Existing Utilisation of Dental Care over Addressing Unmet Needs
Table 3
Model estimated marginal means of the proportion of eligible children who made a claim for four-year postschedule implementation.
Marginal model effects
Conditional model effects: previous reported dental visits
value
Any CDBS claims
No previous visits
One previous visit
Two previous visits
Three previous visits
EMM
95% CI
value
EMM
95% CI
EMM
95% CI
EMM
95% CI
EMM
95% CI
Cohort
Birth
38.6
(32.3, 45.3)
<0.001
Kindergarten
30.4
(24.8, 36.6)
Number of parent-reported dental visits three waves pre-CDBS
None
33.7
(21.4, 48.6)
0.004
One
29.9
(21.0, 40.6)
Two
41.1
(30.6, 52.4)
Three
44.1
(31.3, 57.8)
Uncertain
24.9
(13.1, 42.4)
Indigenous status
Non-Indigenous
35.7
(30.6, 41.2)
0.524
36.7
(25.6, 49.5)
30.0
(22.5, 38.9)
42.0
(34.2, 50.2)
42.1
(33.3, 51.5)
0.910
Indigenous
33.1
(24.8, 42.5)
30.7
(14.7, 53.3)
29.7
(17.0, 46.6)
40.2
(24.0, 58.8)
46.2
(25.8, 68.0)
Weekly household income⸸
Q1
37.1
(31.1, 43.6)
<0.001
36.1
(23.5, 51.1)
33.0
(23.5, 44.0)
44.6
(33.8, 56.0)
49.3
(35.9, 62.9)
0.025
Q2
31.5
(25.8, 37.8)
31.0
(19.1, 46.1)
26.6
(18.2, 37.2)
37.2
(27.1, 48.6)
38.5
(26.3, 52.4)
Q3
25.0
(19.7, 31.8)
25.4
(14.0, 41.5)
20.1
(12.5, 30.7)
29.0
(19.5, 40.8)
26.8
(16.3, 40.8)
Q4
13.6
(8.8, 20.4)
14.3
(5.1, 34.3)
9.1
(3.9, 19.6)
13.8
(6.7, 26.0)
8.7
(3.5, 20.0)
Remoteness area
Major cities
35.4
(29.7, 41.4)
0.507
33.7
(21.8, 48.1)
34.6
(25.1, 45.5)
36.8
(27.3, 47.4)
38.3
(27.2, 50.8)
0.612
Inner regional
37.6
(31.5, 44.2)
34.7
(22.2, 49.7)
37.0
(26.7, 48.7)
42.4
(31.7, 53.7)
46.7
(34.0, 59.9)
Outer regional
36.0
(29.5, 43.0)
32.4
(18.8, 49.6)
34.3
(23.7, 46.7)
40.6
(29.8, 52.4)
44.3
(31.1, 58.4)
Remote and very remote
28.9
(17.5, 43.8)
33.9
(11.5, 67.0)
16.9
(6.4, 37.5)
44.7
(23.5, 67.9)
47.3
(22.2, 73.9)
Parent-reported medical condition/s
No
35.1
(29.9, 40.6)
0.702
31.3
(21.5, 43.1)
32.0
(24.0, 41.2)
40.2
(30.9, 50.2)
42.7
(31.2, 55.1)
0.701
Yes
33.7
(26.0, 42.5)
36.1
(18.8, 57.9)
27.8
(16.6, 42.8)
42.0
(28.1, 57.3)
45.6
(29.1, 63.1)
Model controlled for Socioeconomic Index for Advantage/Disadvantage (SEIFA) and Australian state and territory. ⸸Continuous variable weekly household income estimates fixed to quartiles; Q1 = $1435, Q2 = $2201, Q3 = $3133, and Q4 = 5485. n = 4938.
