Methods and software for estimating health disparities: The case of children's oral health

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 168, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 906-914

  Cheng, Nancy F ^a   Han, Pamela Z ^b   Gansky, Stuart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Dental health surveys; Epidemiologic methods; Health status disparities; Oral health; Socioeconomic factors; Software

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; BOOTSTRAPPING; CHILD HEALTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GUIDELINE; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMIGRANT; ORAL HEALTH; RACIAL DISPARITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOFTWARE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CALCULATION; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HEALTH CONCENTRATION INDEX; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELATIVE INDEX OF INEQUALITY; RESCALING BOOTSTRAP METHOD; SIMULATION; SLOPE INDEX OF INEQUALITY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; TAYLOR SERIES LINEARIZATION; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY HEALTH; ORAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53749104232     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn207     Document Type: Article

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