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Early Impacts of Dental Therapists in Minnesota
Evaluates the impact of dental therapists on the delivery of and access to oral health services in Minnesota from 2009 through 2014. Includes a rural and urban comparison on the effects of dental therapists on patient wait times and distances traveled for dental appointments.
Date: 02/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Minnesota Department of Health - Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
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Missouri's Dentists - 2014
Highlights Missouri's dental workforce, focusing on access to dental health services. Compares urban and rural population to dentist ratios. Includes a map of total dentists in Missouri broken down by county as well as areas designated as Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas in 2014.
Date: 2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
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Growing the Dental Workforce: The Critical Role of Community Colleges and Workforce Investment Boards
Examines how community colleges and workforce investment boards can help improve access to care. Discusses the distribution of dentists in both rural and urban areas, dental therapists who deliver care to rural underserved communities, and dental education programs targeting recruitment efforts for students from underserved communities, including rural and low-income.
Date: 11/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Pew Charitable Trusts
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Recommended Standards for Dental Therapy Education Programs in the United States
Reports recommendations for developing national standards for the education of dental therapists, a provider type used to improve dental care access in underserved communities. Proposes minimum standards of quality programs should use to prepare students to enter the dental therapy profession.
Date: 10/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Community Catalyst
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In Search of Dental Care: Two Types of Dentist Shortages Limit Children's Access to Care
Discusses the uneven distribution of dentists and limited number of dentists accepting Medicaid, with state-level information on these shortages.
Date: 06/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Pew Charitable Trusts
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Economic Viability of Dental Therapists
Describes procedures that dental health aide therapists (DHATs), dental therapists (DTs), and advanced dental therapists (ADTs) can perform and their economic viability within the dental team. Results are based on mid-level dental health providers in rural and urban Alaska and Minnesota.
Author(s): Frances Kim
Date: 05/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Community Catalyst
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Effects of a Proposed Rural Dental School on Regional Dental Workforce and Access to Care
Analyzes a policy proposal to determine if the creation of a rural-based dental school in southwest Virginia would be a solution to improve the size of the dental workforce and oral health outcomes in the region.
Author(s): Tanya Wanchek, Terance Rephann
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 13(2), 2366
Date: 05/2013
Type: Document
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Promising Practices to Improve Access to Oral Health Care in Rural Communities
Identifies and discusses promising practices for developing an oral health program in rural areas, including information on barriers to accessing oral healthcare, evaluation and sustainability of oral health programs, and recruiting dentists to rural areas.
Author(s): Alycia Bayne, Alana Knudson, Arika Garg, Makda Kassahun
Date: 02/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Priming the Pump of Primary Care: Ninth Annual Report to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and to Congress
Offers several policy and program development recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Recommendations are specifically designed to create a strong rural healthcare workforce through improved training opportunities in rural primary care medicine and dentistry.
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
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Increasing Access to Oral Health Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Rural Oregon
Describes a program, Innovations in Oral Health Care Initiative, that works to expand oral healthcare services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS in rural Oregon through collaboration with a dental hygiene school and a dental case manager to help provide access to services. Includes service delivery activities and descriptive roles for each provider.
Author(s): Jill Jones, Mahyar Mofidi, Helene Bednarsh, Alan Gambrell, Carol R. Tobias
Citation: Public Health Reports, 17(Suppl 2), 65-72
Date: 2012
Type: Document
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