Associations between Indigenous Australian oral health literacy and self-reported oral health outcomes

BMC Oral Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Parker, Eleanor J ^a   Jamieson, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH HYGIENE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952255188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6831-10-3     Document Type: Article

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