ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2017
Maintaining Traditions: A Qualitative Study of Early Childhood Caries Risk and Protective Factors in an Indigenous Community.
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- Community based programs to improve the oral health of Australian Indigenous adolescents: a systematic review and recommendations to guide future strategies.BMC health services research · 2020Pooled it
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- Incidence of Tooth Loss in Remote Indigenous Populations of the Amazon Region: A 13-Year Cohort Study Before and After Belo Monte Dam.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Conceptualising the relationships between food sovereignty, food security and oral health among global Indigenous Communities: a scoping review.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- A Qualitative Follow-Up to a Survey of Program Directors on Wellness Programming at a Large Healthcare Organization: Interviews of High- and Low-Exemplar Programs.HCA healthcare journal of medicine · 2024Article
- Social and Preventive Factors That Explain Oral Health among Pregnant Women in the Canton of Cuenca, Ecuador.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Oral Health Status of Ngäbe-Buglé Children in Panama: A Cross Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Caries Experience and Treatment Needs in Urban and Rural Environments in School-Age Children from Three Provinces of Ecuador: A Cross-Sectional Study.Dentistry journal · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Caries According to the ICDAS II in Children from 6 and 12 Years of Age from Southern Ecuadorian Regions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Positive deviance in health and medical research on individual level outcomes - a review of methodology.Annals of epidemiology · 2022Review
- Pediatric oral health: community-based participatory research.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- Child-, Family-, and Community-Level Facilitators for Promoting Oral Health Practices among Indigenous Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Protective Factors for Early Childhood Caries in 3-Year-Old Children in Poland.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Article
- Early Childhood Oral Health and Nutrition in Urban and Rural Nepal.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
In lower middle-income economies (LMIE), the nutrition transition from traditional diets to sugary foods and beverages has contributed to widespread early childhood dental caries. This qualitative study explores perceived risk and protective factors, and overall experiences of early childhood nutrition and oral health in indigenous Ecuadorian families participating in a community-based oral health and nutrition intervention. Dental exams of 698 children age 6 months through 6 years determined each child's caries burden. A convenience sample of 18 "outlier" families was identified:
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