Dental caries: Racial and ethnic disparities among North Carolina kindergarten students

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2503-2509

  Matsuo, Go ^a   Rozier, R Gary ^b   Kranz, Ashley M ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; POVERTY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84946780887     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302884     Document Type: Article

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