Oral health status and oral health behaviour of 12-year-old urban schoolchildren in the People's Republic of China

Community Dental Health

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 238-244

  Peng, Bin ^a   Petersen, Poul Erik ^b   Fan, Ming Wen ^a   Tai, Bao Jun ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CPITN; Dental caries; Multivariate analyses; Oral health behaviour; PR China

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION; FEMALE; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL DENTISTRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUGAR INTAKE; TOOTH BRUSHING; TOOTH CALCULUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CALCULUS; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DIETARY SUCROSE; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; GINGIVAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION, DENTAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; PERIODONTAL INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOL DENTISTRY; SUBURBAN HEALTH; TOOTHBRUSHING; URBAN HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0031302654     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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