The U.S. oral health workforce in the coming decade : workshop summary

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Label

The U.S. oral health workforce in the coming decade : workshop summary

Title remainder

workshop summary

Statement of responsibility

Tracy A. Harris, rapporteur ; Board on Health Care Services ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Title variation

United States oral health workforce in the coming decade

Contributor

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Board on Health Care Services
• Harris, Tracy A

Subject

• Congress
• Dental Health Services
• Dental Health Services -- trends
• Dental public health -- United States
• Health Care Reform
• Health Services Accessibility
• Health Status Disparities
• Health Workforce
• Mouth -- Diseases -- United States -- Prevention
• Oral Health
• Teeth -- Diseases -- United States -- Prevention
• United States

Genre

• Congress

Language

eng

Summary

"Access to oral health services is a problem for all segments of the U.S. population, and especially problematic for vulnerable populations, such as rural and underserved populations. The many challenges to improving access to oral health services include the lack of coordination and integration among the oral health, public health, and medical health care systems; misaligned payment and education systems that focus on the treatment of dental disease rather than prevention; the lack of a robust evidence base for many dental procedures and workforce models; and regulatory barriers that prevent the exploration of alternative models of care. This volume, the summary of a three-day workshop, evaluates the sufficiency of the U.S. oral health workforce to consider three key questions: What is the current status of access to oral health services for the U.S. population? What workforce strategies hold promise to improve access to oral health services? How can policy makers, state and federal governments, and oral health care providers and practitioners improve the regulations and structure of the oral health care system to improve access to oral health services?"--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography