Improving access to oral health care for vulnerable and underserved populations

"Access to oral health care is essential to promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being yet only half of the population visits a dentist each year. Poor and minority children are less likely to have access to oral health care than are their nonpoor and nonminority peers. Older adults, pe...

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Collectivités auteurs: Committee on Oral Health Access to Services (U.S.), National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services, ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2011.
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Table des matières:
  • Oral health status and utilization
  • The oral health care workforce
  • Settings of oral health care
  • Expenditures and financing for oral health care
  • A vision for the delivery of oral health care to vulnerable and underserved populations.