title: [Ethnicity and the 'TJZ' decision].
abstract: The aim of this study was to assess differences in oral health and dental behaviour in a cohort of five-year-old children born in 1982 and a cohort of eleven-year-old children born in 1976, in different ethnic and socio-economic groups, in the period from 1987 to 1990. To this end a secondary analysis was performed on data collected in a study monitoring the oral health of sick fund insured youths in The Netherlands. Large differences in dental health and dental health behaviour were found between ethnic and socio-economic strata. Thus, in the 1982 cohort, the caries prevalence and incidence were highest in the stratum of children of Turkish or Moroccan mothers with a low or unknown education. In the 1976 cohort, the caries prevalence and incidence were highest in children of Dutch parents with a low or unknown education. It is concluded that both stratification variables were caries risk indicators.
authors.affiliation: Uit de sectie Tandzorg en Epidemiologie van de afdeling Jeugd en Gezondheid van het NIPG-TNO te Leiden .
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Verrips
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kalsbeek
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Eijkman
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003729:Dental Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D003753:Dental Health Surveys; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009018:Morocco / Q000208:ethnology; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D009909:Oral Health; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology
vernacular_title: Etniciteit en het Besluit 'TJZ'.