Feasibility and costs of water fluoridation in remote Australian Aboriginal communities

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ehsani, Jonathon P ^a,b   Bailie, Ross ^b  

^a Victorian Public Health Training Scheme   (Australia)

^b MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORIDE; WATER;

ABORIGINE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY; COST; DENTAL CARIES; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORIDATION; FUNDING; HEALTH; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTERVIEW; MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; POLICY; RATING SCALE; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; STAFF; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; INSTRUMENTATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARD;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUORIDATION; FLUORIDES; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MAINTENANCE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 34447099189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-100     Document Type: Review

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