An oral health literacy intervention for Indigenous adults in a rural setting in Australia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Parker, Eleanor J ^a   Misan, Gary ^b   Chong, Alwin ^c   Mills, Helen ^b   Roberts Thomson, Kaye ^a   Horowitz, Alice M ^d   Jamieson, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL PROCEDURE; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ORAL HEALTH; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH; SELF CARE; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 84862306328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-461     Document Type: Article

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