Socioeconomic factors that affect international caries levels

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 226-233

  Diehnelt, Dawn E ^a,b   Asuman Kiyak, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b DDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Caries; Economic development; Health care expenditures; International comparison; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTIST; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUGAR INTAKE; URBANIZATION;

CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; DENTISTS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIETARY SUCROSE; DMF INDEX; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 0035375761     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0528.2001.290309.x     Document Type: Article

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