Relative cost-effectiveness of home visits and telephone contacts in preventing early childhood caries

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 560-568

  Koh, Rongzhen ^a   Pukallus, Margaret ^b   Kularatna, Sanjeewa ^c   Gordon, Louisa G ^c   Barnett, Adrian G ^d   Walsh, Laurence J ^a   Seow, Wan Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Oral Health Program (Logan Beaudesert Division) Metro South Health   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cost effectiveness; early childhood caries; home visit intervention; Markov model; telephone intervention

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PREVENTION; DENTAL PROCEDURE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HOME VISIT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELEPHONE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARE FOR CHILDREN; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; ORAL HYGIENE; PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84945434973     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdoe.12181     Document Type: Article

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