Progressing toward a more culturally competent approach to dental care for African American elders

Special Care in Dentistry

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 301-307

  Slaughter, Ann ^a   Smith, Virginia J ^b   Taylor, Lynne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Lincoln University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental; Ethnicity; Health beliefs; Oral health education; Patient perceptions; Race

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; DENTAL CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GINGIVA DISEASE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; TOOTH BRUSHING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOUTH HYGIENE; SELF CARE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; DENTIST-PATIENT RELATIONS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GINGIVAL DISEASES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; SELF CARE; TOOTHBRUSHING; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 13844311022     PISSN: 02751879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2004.tb01709.x     Document Type: Article

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