Oral health behavior patterns among Tanzanian university students: A repeat cross-sectional survey

BMC Oral Health

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-7

  Åstrøm, Anne Nordrehaug ^a,b   Masalu, Joyce Rose ^a,c  

^a Centre for International Health   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c MUHIMBILI MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUGAR;

ABSTINENCE; BEVERAGE; CACAO; COLLEGE STUDENT; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MOUTH HYGIENE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TANZANIA; UNIVERSITY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 3042605471     PISSN: 14726831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6831-1-1     Document Type: Review

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