Tackling socially determined dental inequalities: Ethical aspects of Childsmile, the national child oral health demonstration programme in Scotland

Bioethics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-139

  Shaw, David ^a,b,c   Macpherson, Lorna ^b,d   Conway, David ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Applied Ethics and Legal Philosophy

^d Childsmile Programme

^e INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dentistry; Disparities; Inequalities; Justice; Oral health; Rawls; Social determinants

Indexed keywords

CHILD; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; ETHICS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; TOOTH BRUSHING; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL CARE FOR CHILDREN; DENTAL CARIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; SCOTLAND; TOOTHBRUSHING;

EID: 58149312799     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: 14678519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00715.x     Document Type: Review

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