Women's oral health awareness and care-seeking characteristics: A pilot study

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 129, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1708-1716

  Watson, Maria Rosa ^b   Gibson, Gretchen ^c   Guo, Ingrid ^a  

^a X Tech Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VETERAN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MARYLAND; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; TEXAS; VETERANS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0032408596     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.1998.0140     Document Type: Article

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