Utilization of dental health care services in context of the HIV epidemic- a cross-sectional study of dental patients in the Sudan

BMC Oral Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Nasir, Elwalid Fadul ^a,b   Åstrøm, Anne Nordrehaug ^b   David, Jamil ^b   Ali, Raouf Wahab ^a  

^a University of Science and Technology   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUDAN; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72849121239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6831-9-30     Document Type: Article

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