Research | helenaconstante

Most recent selected peer-reviewed publications

Nath S, Sethi S, Bastos JL, Constante HM, Mejia G, Haag D, Kapellas K, Jamieson LM. The global prevalence and severity of dental caries among racially minoritized children: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Caries Research 2023; 57(4): 485–508. DOI: 10.1159/000533565

Bastos JL, Fleming E, Haag DG, Schuch HS, Jamieson LM, Constante HM. The relations between systems of oppression and oral care access in the US. Journal of Dental Research. 2023;102(10):1080-1087. DOI:10.1177/00220345231184181

Bastos JL, Constante HM, Schuch HS, Haag DG, Jamieson LM. The mouth as a site of compound injustices: A structural intersectionality approach to the oral health of working-age U.S. adults. Am J Epidemiol 2023; 192(4):560-572.

Constante HM, Bastos JL, Ruiz MA. The more you need, the less you get: Intersectionality and the inverse care law in the Brazilian depression care cascade. Ethnicity & Health 2022; 24: 1-15.

Bastos JL, Constante HM, Schuch HS, Haag DG, Jamieson LM. How do state-level racism, sexism, and income inequality shape edentulism-related racial inequities in contemporary United States? A structural intersectionality approach to population oral health. J Public Health Dent. 2022 Mar;82 Suppl 1:16-27.

Bastos JL, Constante HM, Schuch HS, Haag D, Nath S, Celeste RK, Guanizo-Herreño CC, McCallum MJ, Jamieson LM. Where are race-based oral health inequities bound? Protocol for a systematic review on interventions to tackle racial injustice in dental outcomes. Systematic Reviews 2022; 11:41.

Nath S, Sethi S, Bastos JL, Constante HM, Kapellas K, Haag D, Jamieson LM. A global perspective of racial-ethnic inequities in dental caries: protocol of systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022; 19(3): 1390.

Constante HM, Marinho GL, Bastos JL. The door is open, but not everyone may enter: Racial inequities in healthcare access across three Brazilian surveys. Cien Saude Colet 2021; 26 (09): 3981-3990.

Bastos JL, Constante HM, Jamieson LM. Making science and doing justice: The need to reframe research on racial inequities in oral health. Community Dental Health 2021; 38(2): 132-137.

Bastos JL, Constante HM, Jamieson LM. The ethical urgency of tackling racial inequities in health. EClinical Medicine 2021 Mar; 34:100816

Constante HM, Bastos JL. Mapping the margins in health services research: How does race intersect with gender, and socioeconomic status to shape difficulty accessing healthcare among unequal Brazilian States? Int J Health Serv 2021 Apr;51(2):155-166

Bastos JL, Constante HM, Celeste RK, Haag DG, Jamieson LM. Advancing racial equity in oral health (research): more of the same is not enough. Eur J Oral Sci 2020; 128: 459– 466.

Constante HM. Racial inequalities in public dental service utilization: Exploring individual and contextual determinants among middle‐aged Brazilian adults. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2020; 48: 302– 308.

Most recent projects

Inequity, intersectionality, and access to health services: mapping the margins in a representative Brazilian sample. Fellowship (2020 - 2021). Funding agency: CNPq/Brazil. Host organisation: UFSC/Brazil. Line manager Dr João Dornelles Bastos.

Racial inequalities in health and dental service utilisation: exploring the role of healthy lifestyle and perceived discrimination among a sample of Brazilian population. Fellowship (2019 - 2020). Funding agency: CAPES/Brazil. Host organisation: UFSC/Brazil. Line manager Dr João Dornelles Bastos.

The relationship between colour/race and dental service utilisation: exploring individual and contextual determinants amongst a national sample of Brazilian adults. (2015-2019). Funding agency: CNPq/Brazil. Host organisation: UCL/UK. Supervisors: Prof Richard G. Watt and Prof Georgios Tsakos.