Factors influencing dental utilisation in Greece

Community Dental Health

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-188

  Zavras, Dimitrios ^a   Economou, Charalabos ^a   Kyriopoulos, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

Age; Dental utilisation; Income; Insurance coverage; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTIST; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GREECE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INSTRUMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION; POSTAL MAIL; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SAMPLE; SCHOOL; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 3042839305     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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