@article{dfb81d57aebb4767b0f944d5b86f5cbc,
title = "Oral health knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) in rural Haiti: a 40-year follow-up study",
abstract = "This paper reports the changed findings over a 40-year period on oral health knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of a very remote and rural population living the Jeremie region of Haiti. The far-sighted investigators of that original 1970 survey stated in their published 1972 paper that our “…findings are descriptive, but have to be accepted tentatively rather than definitively because time was short, transportation was difficult, and the small sample that had to be used could not random.” They further insightfully stated their hopes that their “…results may be regarded as an anthropological cultural baseline from which to review further findings concerning Haitian dental beliefs.” The two follow-up surveys in 1997 and 2010 using the same exact KAP questionnaire on the same population of rural Haitians living in the Jeremie region fulfilled the extraordinary vision of those two initial investigators, Dr. Wesley Young (a nationally renowned U.S. public health dental academician) and Paul Rundberg (then a dental student at the University of Kentucky).",
keywords = "Haiti, dental health surveys, health behavior, oral hygiene",
author = "Katz, {Ralph V.} and Prophete, {Samuel E.} and Christina Lafontant and Bette Gebrian and Bourdeau, {Louis C.} and Joseph, {J. R.Ernst} and Lafontant, {Gladys J.} and {St. Jean}, {H. Ludwig} and Rundberg, {Paul E.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors wish to acknowledge the support and vision of Dr. Jean Lafond who was the Dean of the University of Haiti Dental School who led the dental school into this novel, first-ever international collaboration for the benefit of his faculty and the Haitian people. The authors also wish to thank both Mr. Edwin Magloire, owner of Place Charmant and Elegance Copying, for his hospitality and photocopying services, and Jerry Lowney, DDS, MPH, President of the Haitian Health Foundation (HHF),for his encouragement to use the HHF's Rural Outreach Program for the framework of this study. Finally, the authors want to thank the following dental students from the University of Haiti and New York University for their participation in this study either in collecting the field data, in managing aspects of thedata set, or conducting the literature review: F. McKeven (UoH), J Auguste (UoH), E. Luckson (UoH), Stephanie Thomas (NYU), Weam Banjar (NYU), Manveen Kaur (NYU), Naama Aviv (NYU) and Garima Senha (NYU). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 American Association of Public Health Dentistry",
year = "2018",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/jphd.12270",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "78",
pages = "192--196",
journal = "Journal of public health dentistry",
issn = "0022-4006",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "3",
}