Children's use of dental services in the five Nordic countries

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1080-1085

  Virtanen, Jorma I ^a,b   Berntsson, Leeni T ^c   Lahelma, Eero ^a   Köhler, Lennart ^b   Murtomaa, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; DENTAL CARE FOR CHILDREN; FINLAND; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; ICELAND; NORWAY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SWEDEN;

ARCTIC; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 36749029448     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.052910     Document Type: Article

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