Improving access to oral health care for vulnerable and underserved populations / Committee on Oral Health Access to Services, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies.
"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 adult...
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| Other title: | Oral health care for vulnerable and underserved populations. |
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
©2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.