Dental Manpower Planning: Can We Ever Get It Right?

Odrich, J

doi:10.2307/3342052

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“…The sociodental account also did not consider the various factors that would affect the demand and utilization of services. Variables such as income, education, age, cultural and racial demography could influence individual's propensity to use health care services regardless of the presence of impact 28,29 . The stringent criterion for allocating treatment to those without oral impact could therefore result in underestimating the people's wants.…”

Section: In Summary There Are Two Models Involved In the Sociodental mentioning

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The Sociodental Approach To Assess Dental Treatment Needs – A Review

Susanthironanki¹,

Suhaskulkarni²,

Reddy³

et al. 2017

IOSR JDMS

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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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Section: In Summary There Are Two Models Involved In the Sociodental mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sociodental Approach To Assess Dental Treatment Needs – A Review

Susanthironanki¹,

Suhaskulkarni²,

Reddy³

et al. 2017

IOSR JDMS

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“…. not well accounted for in the dentist-to-population ratio.N A model based on a dental services market of current users also has the capability of perpetuating a health care system that, on the basis of its analysis, ignores changes that may influence new people to enter the system (14,103). The demand for care is subwt to many changes that may invalidate any but the most time-constrained predictions (15).…”

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“…In addition, the creation of new technologies as well as temporal changes in the mix and quantity of services advocated by providers to consumers have the potential to create new or different demands. A demand-based model may not be useful in health care planning if it is incapable of recognizing and evaluating the effects of change in consumer-and provider-generated demand, as well as attending to the oral health care needs of a population (14).…”

Section: "By 1976 the Ada's House Of Delegates Had Enacted Various Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dental Health Personnel Planning: a Review of the Literature

Goodman

Weyant

1990

J Public Health Dent

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Dental personnel planning is important in formulating policy in dental education, dental public health programs, and dental care delivery systems. The purpose of this literature review is to illustrate the use of dentist-to-population ratios, need-based models, and demand-based models in the determination of appropriate supply of dental personnel. A historical perspective is provided that demonstrates how political manipulation and subjectivity have characterized the use of these models by organized dentistry, the federal government, and others. The lack of pertinent data and the inability to predict economic, social, political, and epidemiologic trends weaken the applicability of each model in determining future personnel levels. Considering the long-term consequences of the use of each model in personnel planning, caution is urged in using any of the presently available models.

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“…Most oral health workforce models estimate the workforce requirements based on the quantity of health services required by the population, using a normative needs approach . These methods assume that there is a constant demand for care, directly related to the size of the population and do not consider people's health behaviours. Many planning models are focused on treatment needs, which reflects a disease evaluation and treatment orientation approach .…”

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“…These methods assume that there is a constant demand for care, directly related to the size of the population and do not consider people's health behaviours. Many planning models are focused on treatment needs, which reflects a disease evaluation and treatment orientation approach . The models do not include the subjective feelings of people about their health, which influences the use of healthcare services.…”

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Exploratory scoping of the literature on factors that influence oral health workforce planning and management in developing countries

Knevel

Gussy

Farmer

2016

Int J Dental Hygiene

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Exploratory scoping of the literature on factors that influence oral health workforce planning and management in developing countries Abstract: Objectives: The purpose of this study was to scope the literature that exists about factors influencing oral health workforce planning and management in developing countries (DCs). Methods: The Arksey and O'Malley method for conducting a scoping review was used. A replicable search strategy was applied, using three databases. Factors influencing oral health workforce planning and management in DCs identified in the eligible articles were charted. Findings: Four thousand citations were identified; 41 papers were included for review. Most included papers were situational analyses. Factors identified were as follows: lack of data, focus on the restorative rather than preventive care in practitioner education, recent increase in number of dental schools (mostly private) and dentistry students, privatization of dental care services which has little impact on care maldistribution, and debates about skill mix and scope of practice. Oral health workforce management in the eligible studies has a bias towards dentist-led systems. Due to a lack of countryspecific oral health related data in developing or least developed countries (LDCs), oral health workforce planning often relies on data and modelling from other countries. Discussion and conclusion: Approaches to oral health workforce management and planning in developing or LDCs are often characterized by approaches to increase numbers of dentists, thus not ameliorating maldistribution of service accessibility. Governments appear to be reducing support for public and preventative oral healthcare, favouring growth in privatized dental services. Changes to professional education are necessary to trigger a paradigm shift to the preventive approach and to improve relationships between different oral healthcare provider roles. This needs to be premised on greater appreciation of preventive care in health systems and funding models.

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Dental Manpower Planning: Can We Ever Get It Right?

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

The Sociodental Approach To Assess Dental Treatment Needs – A Review

The Sociodental Approach To Assess Dental Treatment Needs – A Review

Dental Health Personnel Planning: a Review of the Literature

Exploratory scoping of the literature on factors that influence oral health workforce planning and management in developing countries

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