Health workforce planning is important as the right mix of quantity and type of personnel will facilitate provision of care by the most appropriate personnel and hopefully improve the population's oral health at regional, provincial and national levels. Numerous workforce models have been developed to assist oral health planners in deciding the appropriate number and the proper mix of human resource skills. The method chosen to estimate workforce requirement reflects the political and economic choices and social values of a health system. Most of the models intend to define the supply versus requirements gap. The supply of health care is the stock of health workforce available at present or in the future to deliver health care.This research highlights the fact that there is a need for an organized national health workforce planning system to control the supply and demand of dental manpower, to ensure a uniform distribution of manpower in both urban and rural areas and to provide dental care.
Health needs assessment is an important component in health care planning. It provides a platform to systemically assess unmet health and health care needs and to collect data required in improving health of the population. The traditional normative need approach for lacking in its objectivity and reliability, for ignoring the concept of quality of life and for disregarding scientific evidence, there is a need to develop appropriate measure of oral health needs which would incorporate the impact of ill-health on daily life, the degree of dysfunction it causes and the perceptions and attitudes of patients which would provide a better division of resources in providing care. This research highlights thesociodental approach, which is conceptually appropriate as it correspond to broader concepts of health and needs. This approach conforms to the modern, theoretical, multifactorial approach for the assessment of oral health care needs.
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