Determinants of the utilization of dental services in a community-dwelling elderly Japanese population

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 241-249

  Ohi, Takashi ^a   Kikuchi, Masahiko ^b   Hattori, Yoshinori ^a   Tsuboi, Akito ^a   Hozawa, Atsushi ^c   Ohmori Matsuda, Kaori ^c   Tsuji, Ichiro ^c   Watanabe, Makoto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compliance; Elderly; Japanese; Treatment recommendation; Utilization of dental service

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; DENTAL CARE; DENTURE; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION; RISK; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION GROUPS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUBURBAN POPULATION;

EID: 68849091136     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.218.241     Document Type: Article

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