Improving access and provision of preventive oral health care for very young, poor, and low-income children through a new interdisciplinary partnership

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages e26-e29

  Biordi, Diana L ^a   Heitzer, Marjet ^a   Mundy, Eric ^a   DiMarco, Marguerite ^a   Thacker, Sherrey ^a   Taylor, Evelyn ^a   Huff, Marlene ^a   Marino, Deborah ^a   Fitzgerald, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORIDE VARNISH;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PROCEDURE; DIETITIAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAID; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE PRACTITIONER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL CARE FOR CHILDREN; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; FLUORIDES, TOPICAL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEDICAID; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NUTRITIONISTS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84924675100     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302486     Document Type: Article

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