Racial and ethnic disparities in children's oral health The National Survey of Children's Health

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1507-1517

  Dietrich, Thomas ^a,b   Culler, Corinna ^b   Garcia, Raul I ^b   Henshaw, Michelle M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Health services research

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349156990     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2008.0077     Document Type: Article

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