Were NZ's structural changes to the welfare state in the early 1990s associated with a measurable increase in oral health inequalities among children?

Abstract Objective: To test the hypothesis that the 1990–91 social and economic policy changes in New Zealand were associated with a subsequent increase in socio‐economic and ethnic inequalities in the dental caries experience of five‐year‐old children. Method: Dental caries data from the School Den...

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Main Authors: W.M. Thomson, S.M. Williams, P.J. Dennison, D.W. Peacock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2002-12-01
Series:Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2002.tb00361.x