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Factors associated with use of preventive dental and Health services among U.S. adolescents
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Health insurance and family income are most consistently related to adolescents' use of preventive medical and dental care, however, the relationship between lack of dental care and place of birth emphasizes the need to improve access to dental services for immigrant teens.About:
This article is published in Journal of Adolescent Health.The article was published on 2001-12-01. It has received 147 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Place of birth & Public health.read more
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Analytical epidemiology of periodontitis
TL;DR: A conspicuous lack of uniformity in the definition of periodontitis used in epidemiologic studies, and findings from different research groups are not readily interpretable, means there is a clear need for longitudinal prospective studies that address hypotheses emerging from the cross-sectional data and include established risk factors as covariates along with new exposures of interest.
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Racial and ethnic disparities in health care for adolescents: a systematic review of the literature.
TL;DR: It is suggested that racial and ethnic disparities, independent of SES, exist in selected areas of adolescent health care.
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National Health Care Visit Patterns of Adolescents Implications for Delivery of New Adolescent Vaccines
Cynthia M. Rand,Laura P. Shone,Christina Albertin,Peggy Auinger,Jonathan D. Klein,Peter G. Szilagyi +5 more
TL;DR: Examining current use of adolescent outpatient health care visits in the United States concludes that adolescent vaccinations should be delivered during early or middle adolescence, and involvement of obstetrician-gynecologists in vaccine delivery is critical.
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Adolescent health literacy and health behaviors: A systematic review.
TL;DR: It is suggested that there is a meaningful relationship between health literacy and adolescents' health behaviors, and future research should use comprehensive definitions and measures of health literacy, and integrate health behavior and adolescent development theoretical frameworks in study design.
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Health status and health service access and use among children in U.S. immigrant families.
TL;DR: It is found that children from immigrant families were in worse physical health than children from non-immigrant families and used health care services at a significantly lower frequency.
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Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a method for detecting and assessing Collinearity of observations and outliers in the context of extensions to the Wikipedia corpus, based on the concept of Influential Observations.
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A framework for the study of access to medical care.
Lu Ann Aday,Ronald M. Andersen +1 more
TL;DR: Indicators are suggested for the measurement of the various relevant aspects of access, with the system and population descriptors seen as process indicators and utilization and satisfaction as outcome indicators in a theoretical model of the access concept.
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Foregone health care among adolescents.
TL;DR: The study suggests that adolescents who forego care are at increased risk of physical and mental health problems and efforts to improve adolescent health through health care should address factors influencing foregone care.