Multilevel model to estimate county-level untreated dental caries among US children aged 6–9 years using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 111, Issue , 2018, Pages 291-298

  Lin, Mei ^a   Zhang, Xingyou ^b   Holt, James B ^a   Robison, Valerie ^a   Li, Chien Hsun ^c   Griffin, Susan O ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c CyberData Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Dental health surveys; Dental public health surveillance; Small area estimation; Untreated dental caries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; NUTRITION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; VALIDATION PROCESS; HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; NUTRITION SURVEYS; ORAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85035149700     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.11.015     Document Type: Article

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