Dental health knowledge in a group of black adolescents living in rural South Carolina

Journal of Allied Health

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-21

  Yuen, Hon K ^a,e   Wiegand, Ryan E ^a   Slate, Elizabeth H ^b   Magruder, Kathryn M ^c   Salinas, Carlos F ^d   London, Steven D ^b  

^a Department of Rehabilitation Sciences

^b Department of Biostatistics Bioinformatics and Epidemiology Research and Basic Sciences

^c Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ^*

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; MOUTH HYGIENE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORAL HYGIENE; RURAL HEALTH; SOUTH CAROLINA; STOMATOGNATHIC DISEASES;

EID: 41349083113     PISSN: 00907421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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