Early Childhood Caries among a Bedouin community residing in the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Livny, Alon ^a   Assali, Rula ^a   Sgan Cohen, Harold D ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAB; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILDHOOD; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTITION; EDUCATION; FAMILY; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; MOUTH HYGIENE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; TOOTH DISEASE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOTTLE FEEDING; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; ISRAEL; POVERTY; STATISTICS; SUGAR INTAKE; TOOTH BRUSHING; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ARABS; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH SURVEYS; DIET; DIETARY SUCROSE; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MOTHERS; ORAL HYGIENE; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; TOOTHBRUSHING; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 34548412669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-167     Document Type: Article

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