OBJECTIVES To investigate the challenges of providing oral health advice/treatment as experienced by non-dental primary care providers in rural and remote areas with no resident dentist, and their views on ways in which oral health and oral health services could be improved for their communities. DESIGN Qualitative study with semistructured interviews and thematic analysis. SETTING Four rem...

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between demand for and utilization of dental services by insurance coverage among adults in Iran. Methods: A cross-sectional survey based on telephone interviews was done. A total of 6,029 adults participated in this study conducted in Iran. The interviews were carried out using a structured questionnaire and covered dental vis...

PURPOSE This study examined whether providing insurance through Iowa's State Children's Health Insurance Program, S-SCHIP, had an impact on dental care access for adolescents that was similar to children of other age groups. METHODS Using a pretest, post-test panel study design, an 80-item questionnaire was mailed to the parents of one S-SCHIP enrollee per household at enrollment. A similar i...

BACKGROUND In Finland, dental services are provided by a public (PDS) and a private sector. In the past, children, young adults and special needs groups were entitled to care and treatment from the public dental services (PDS). A major reform in 2001 - 2002 opened the PDS and extended subsidies for private dental services to all adults. It aimed to increase equity by improving adults' access to...

OBJECTIVES The first aim was to study how oral health care delivery was organized in member countries and to determine whether there were differences across the Barents region. The second aim was to assess the performance of the care provision systems. The Barents region is one of the largest hinterlands in northern Europe. STUDY DESIGN Descriptions of the oral health care provision systems i...

T he age limits entitling to publicly subsidized dental care were abolished in Finland by the amended provisions of the Primary Health Care Act and the Health Insurance Act, which entered into force in their entirety on December 1, 2002. Before that, the local municipal authorities could limit the access to dental care on the basis of age. Likewise, the eligibility for reimbursement under healt...

PURPOSE To assess the age the of the first dental visit and the association of self-perceived oral health, socioeconomic and clinical indicators with healthcare utilisation in Brazilian preschool children. MATERIALS AND METHODS An epidemiological survey with 455 5- to 59-month-old children was conducted on National Children's Vaccination Day in Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. Data about age and reas...

The scope of this study is to establish the profile of elderly users of dental services provided by the Brazilian Unified Health System(SUS) and associated factors from the standpoint of equity. It involves an analytical cross-sectional study with hierarchical modeling conducted on the basis of a complex probabilistic sample of groups of the elderly (65-74 years of age) living in a densely popu...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this review are to characterize the oral health and dental access of Head Start children, describe barriers to their care, advance strategies to address those barriers, and consider how Head Start Performance Standards can be utilized to maximize oral health and access to dental care. METHODS Published, programmatic, and solicited data describing oral health statu...