Self-reported oral health among a community sample of people experiencing social and health inequities: Cross-sectional findings from a study to enhance equity in primary healthcare settings

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Wallace, Bruce ^a   Browne, Annette J ^b   Varcoe, Colleen ^b   Ford Gilboe, Marilyn ^c   Wathen, Nadine ^c   Long, Phoebe M ^b   Parker, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CANADIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADOLESCENT; CANADA; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; VULNERABLE POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL HEALTH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF REPORT; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960126972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009519     Document Type: Article

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