Washington's Rural Oral Health Workforce
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Description
Highlights challenges in access to oral healthcare in rural Washington, workforce shortages, and geographic disparities. Emphasizes the need for strategies to support recruitment, retention, and training of oral health professionals in underserved areas. Features demographics and statistics on oral health professionals, with breakdowns by rural and nonrural areas, and Washington maps showing distribution of various oral health professionals, with shadings indicating rural and nonrural counties.
Date
08/2025
Organization
UW Center for Health Workforce Studies
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· Dental workforce
· Health workforce education and training
· Health workforce supply and demand
· Oral health
· Recruitment and retention of health professionals
· Rural-urban differences
· Statistics and data
· Washington