Risk awareness, exposure to oral health information, oral health related beliefs and behaviours among students attending higher learning institutions in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 328-333

  Masalu, J ^a   Mtaya, M ^a   Astrom A N ^a  

^a Centre for International Health   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; COLLEGE STUDENT; DENTAL CARIES; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; GOVERNMENT; HABIT; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LEARNING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MOUTH HYGIENE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT; TANZANIA; TOOTH DISEASE; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; ORAL HEALTH; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS; TANZANIA; UNIVERSITIES; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0036622653     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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