Use of preventive dental care among medicaid-enrolled, school-aged US children in immigrant and nonimmigrant families: Trends in Pennsylvania from 2005 through 2010

K. Yun, A. Chesnokova, J. Shults, A. Pinto and D.M. Rubin

American Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 104, issue 12, 2400-2408

Abstract: Objectives. We describe trends in receipt of preventive dental care among Medicaid-enrolled children in Pennsylvania between 2005 and 2010, comparing the US children of immigrants with their co-ethnic peers in nonimmigrant families.

Keywords: adolescent; child; comparative study; dental procedure; economics; ethnic group; female; human; infant; longitudinal study; male; medicaid; migrant; preschool child; preventive health service; United States; utilization, Adolescent; Child; Child, Preschool; Dental Care for Children; Emigrants and Immigrants; Ethnic Groups; Female; Humans; Infant; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medicaid; Pennsylvania; Preventive Health Services; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302157

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