title: Patterns of access to public oral health care in Queensland by gender, indigenous status and rurality.
abstract: Data were collected on courses of care from all attendances at public sector dental clinics between July 1994 and June 1996 and examined by gender, rurality and indigenous status. Males and indigenous people were more likely to attend dental clinics when a problem with pain existed, resulting in a high need for emergency services, more diagnoses of dental caries, and treatment more often involving oral surgery, including extractions. Similarly, remote area dwellers had more diagnoses of dental caries and oral surgery, although their attendance at clinics was complicated by access.
authors.affiliation: Oral Health Unit, Queensland Health.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Slater
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003729:Dental Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology; D017266:Dental Prosthesis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004638:Emergency Treatment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D011636:Public Health Dentistry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011793:Queensland / Q000453:epidemiology; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012737:Sex Factors; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples