The association of early childhood caries and race/ethnicity among California preschool children

Journal of Public Health Dentistry

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-46

  Shiboski, Caroline H ^a   Gansky, Stuart A ^a   Ramos Gomez, Francisco ^a   Ngo, Long ^b   Isman, Robert ^c   Pollick, Howard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Feeding practices; Head Start; Preschool; Race ethnicity; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARIES; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILK; MOUTH EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; RISK; SLEEP; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; ASIAN AMERICAN; CARIOGENIC DIET; CAUCASIAN; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; HEALTH SURVEY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL CARIES; DIET, CARIOGENIC; DMF INDEX; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 0038823693     PISSN: 00224006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-7325.2003.tb03472.x     Document Type: Article

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