The effects of income and education on ethnic differences in oral health: A study in US adults

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 516-520

  Sabbah, W ^a   Tsakos, G ^a   Sheiham, A ^a   Watt, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ETHNICITY; HEALTH SURVEY; INCOME; ORAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MOUTH HYGIENE; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTITIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GINGIVAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCOME; MEXICAN AMERICANS; ODDS RATIO; ORAL HEALTH; PERIODONTITIS; TOOTH LOSS; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650074672     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.082313     Document Type: Article

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