Equality in adults' oral health in Norway. Cohort and cross-sectional results over 33 years

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 488-497

  Holst, Dorthe ^a   Schuller, Annemarie A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

birth cohort; epidemiology; oral health; social inequality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DMF INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; ORAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81255185066     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2011.00624.x     Document Type: Article

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