title: Millennium children.
abstract: A federal agency's extensive report on the well-being of our children at the beginning of the new millennium provides an opportunity to review the many achievements and remaining concerns about the health and social environment of the children in our communities and in many of our dental practices.
authors.affiliation: Dental Health Services, Department of General Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY, USA.
authors.forename: H Barry
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Waldman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy; D002652:Child Behavior; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004522:Educational Status; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006304:Health Status; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011203:Poverty; D020954:Single-Parent Family; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D012931:Social Environment; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States