Financing and delivering oral health care: What can we learn from other countries?

Journal of the Canadian Dental Association

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Birch, Stephen ^a,b   Anderson, Rob ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Delivery of health care trends; Dental health services trends; Health services needs and demand

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; DENTAL CARE; DENTISTRY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

AUSTRALIA; CANADA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FINANCING, PERSONAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEW ZEALAND; STATE DENTISTRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27944458426     PISSN: 14882159     EISSN: 14882159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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