Open AccessSmall-area contextual effects on children’s dental caries in Alberta: a multilevel analysis
Author(s) -
Congshi Shi,
Fabiola Aparicio-Ting,
Peter Faris,
Steven Patterson,
Lindsay McLaren
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
canadian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1920-7476
pISSN - 0008-4263
DOI - 10.17269/s41997-021-00485-9
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , multilevel model , public health , census , oral health , medicine , geography , environmental health , dentistry , nursing , population , machine learning , computer science
The objective of this study was to examine the presence of small-area-level effects on children's dental caries in Alberta, Canada, where dental public health programming is targeted in nature, based on an area-level measure of socio-economic circumstances.