Perception About Oral Health and Its Determinants in Women in Context of Prostitution in Medellín (Colombia): Expressions of Social Vulnerability
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Abstract
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Women in context of prostitution (commonly called sex workers) are considered a vulnerable group due to their precarious employment, abuse and exploitation. This study aimed to understand the knowledge, practices and social representations about the oral health component for the health-disease process and its determinants in this group.METHODS: A qualitative study was conducted by means of 12 semi-structured interviews in women ≥ 18 years of age who are dedicated to the act of prostitution. In addition, three interviews were conducted with leaders of projects and/or social organizations within Medellin who work alongside sex workers. The information was analyzed using the Atlas.Ti 6.0 software by identifying meaning codes and grouping in emergent categories.RESULTS: The analysis of the interviews allowed to establish categories related to oral health and quality of life, social determinants and accessibility to health care. The concept of oral health is related to their self-perception of hygiene and the aesthetic appearance. They relate the concept of quality of life to meet basic needs such as food, housing, health, education, and have a decent job. The economic, political and social context in which they are located affects the quality of life. They identify barriers to access to oral health services, although much of these women recognize their lack of compromise when they need to seek health care.CONCLUSIONS: The oral health and its determinants as perceived by the people interviewed is a true reflection about the situation of social vulnerability of the women in context of prostitution.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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