Pediatric preventive care utilization is an important part of primary and secondary prevention, and immunization and dental visits represent two major activities that significantly impact child health and well-being, which may be critical in averting subsequent chronic morbidity and premature mortality. Due to its importance and in order to augment childhood preventive care use, several attempts have been made to delineate factors that predict underutilization of these services so that appropriate strategies could be formulated to enhance the level of pediatric preventive care usage. Several characteristics have been identified as influential factors of preventive care use during childhood. Most of these predictors are features that are measured at the level of the child, and information on the role of maternal characteristics on child preventive care utilization is scanty. Assessment of maternal characteristics that influence preventive care use could identify maternal determinants for preventive pediatric care use because it is well-known that in most instances it is the mother who assumes direct responsibility for ensuring that her children receive proper preventive health services. For this reason, we undertook this study with the main objective of discerning maternal features that are predictive of up-to-date immunization receipt and dental visits among children aged 0-5 years. As a secondary aim, we also assessed black-white differences in preventive care utilization during childhood. cetirizine 10mg