National Oral Health Policy and Financing and Dental Health Status in 19 Countries

被引:4
作者
Foote, Tess [1 ,4 ]
Willis, Lauren [2 ]
Lin, Tracy Kuo [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif San Francisco, Sch Dent, San Francisco, CA USA
[2] Columbia Univ, Sch Dent, New York, NY USA
[3] Univ Calif San Francisco, Inst Hlth & Aging, Dept Social & Behav Sci, Sch Nursing, San Francisco, CA USA
[4] Univ Calif San Francisco, Sch Dent, 707 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
关键词
Oral health policy; Financing; Oral health; Global public health; DMFT; CARE; COVERAGE; SYSTEMS;
D O I
10.1016/j.identj.2023.01.007
中图分类号
R78 [口腔科学];
学科分类号
1003 ;
摘要
Objective: Dental caries in permanent teeth is one of the most common health issues- despite being preventable in early stages-due to inadequate regulation of preventive den-tal services in many countries. This study evaluates the association between regulation of preventive dental services and oral health outcomes.Methods: This mixed-method study analysed data from 19 member countries of the Organisa-tion for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Oral health outcomes were mea-sured using decayed missing and filled teeth (DMFT) indexes for children aged 12 to 18 years. Oral health expenditures were measured as a percentage of each country's gross domestic product (GDP). We conducted web-based research and systematically extracted and coded data on dental policy regarding children's preventive dental services. Preventive care was assessed based on legal policy mandating children receive preventive services, availability of free serv-ices for children, and regulation of the services provided. We assessed the relationship amongst oral health policy, outcomes, and expenditure using bivariate regression analysis.Results: The most common preventive policy category is the availability of free dental serv-ices for children (78.95%), and the least common is policy mandating dental services for children (26.32%). The oral health expenditure is correlated with DMFT index (-4.42, P < 0.05). The legal policy mandating dental services for children is correlated with DMFT index (-1.32, P < 0.05) and correlated with average oral health expenditure (0.16, P < 0.05).Conclusions: A percentage increase in oral health expenditure is associated with a 4.42 reduction in DMFT. The existence of legal policy mandating dental care for children is asso-ciated with a 1.32 reduction in mean DMFT score and a 0.16% increase in oral health expen-diture. These findings highlight the importance of preventive care and may aid policymaking and health system reforms.(c) 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of FDI World Dental Federation. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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