Disparities in dental service utilization among Alabama Medicaid children

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 369-376

  Dasanayake, Ananda P ^a,b   Li, Yufeng ^a   Wadhawan, Sangeetha ^a   Kirk, Katharine ^a   Bronstein, Janet ^a   Childers, Noel K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Alabama; Dental care; Disparity; Medicaid; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; DENTAL CARE; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAID; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ALABAMA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; DENTAL CARE FOR CHILDREN; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAID; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0036778075     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0528.2002.00001.x     Document Type: Article

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