Planning the future of oral health care workforce: Moving beyond demographic change

Community Dent Health. 2023 Nov 23. doi: 10.1922/CDH_00145Birch05. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe adoption of Universal Health Coverage for oral health care will not be sufficient to ensure that health care resources are accessible in accordance with needs for care. Government intervention in planning and allocating resources will be required to replace traditional market forces if market failure is not to be replaced by government failure. In this paper we explore the limitations of current 'fixed in time' approaches to planning the oral health care workforce and present an enhanced dynamic model for workforce planning that responds directly to changes in population, evidence-based best practice and new models of care.PMID:38078644 | DOI:10.1922/CDH_00145Birch05
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