Journal article
Public policy and the market for dental services
Abstract
Social inequality in access to oral health care is a feature of countries with predominantly privately funded markets for dental services. Private markets for health care have inherent inefficiencies whereby sick and poor people have restricted access compared to their healthy and more affluent compatriots. In the future, access to dental care may worsen as trends in demography, disease and development come to bear on national oral healthcare …
Authors
Leake JL; Birch S
Journal
Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 287–295
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
August 2008
DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0528.2008.00438.x
ISSN
0301-5661