Dental knowledge, attitudes towards oral health care and utilization of dental services among male industrial workers with or without an employer-provided dental benefit scheme

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 380-384

  Ahlberg, Jari ^a,b   Tuominen, Risto ^a   Murtomaa, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Department of Dental Public Health ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Dental health care; Subsidization; Utilization of dental services

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION; DENTITION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FINLAND; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOOTH BRUSHING; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DENTITION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FINLAND; HEALTH EDUCATION, DENTAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; ORAL HEALTH; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TOOTHBRUSHING;

EID: 0030347512     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1996.tb00883.x     Document Type: Article

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