The U.S. Oral Health Workforce in the Coming Decade: Workshop Summary

by Tracy A. Harris, Planning Committee for a Workshop on the Sufficien, Institute of Medicine

Access to oral health services is a problem for all segments of the U.S. population, and especially problematic for vulnerable populations, such as rural and underserved populations. The many challenges to improving access to oral health services include the lack of coordination and integration among the oral health, public health, and medical health care systems; misaligned payment and education systems that focus on the treatment of dental disease...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030913904X
• ISBN13: 9780309139045
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"