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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
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与联邦合格卫生中心的口腔健康服务相关的关键因素
Jinman Pang1, Simona Surdu1, Theekshana Fernando1
1Oral Health Workforce Research Center, Center for Health Workforce Studies, College of Integrated Health Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), Rensselaer, New York, USA.
Journal of public health dentistry
|January 28, 2025
概括
增加牙科人员和联邦拨款,促进联邦合格卫生中心 (FQHCs) 的口腔健康服务. 扩大医疗补助 (Medicaid) 牙科覆盖范围可能会进一步提高服务不足的人口的获取机会.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 牙科公共卫生 牙科公共卫生
背景情况:
- 联邦合格卫生中心 (FQHCs) 对于向服务不足的人群提供初级保健,包括口腔健康服务至关重要.
- 了解影响FQHC口腔卫生服务范围和提供范围的因素对于改善公共口腔健康结果至关重要.
- 需要分析趋势并确定FQHC随时间推移提供口腔健康服务的关键驱动因素.
研究的目的:
- 检查2012年至2021年期间FQHC提供的口腔健康服务的演变.
- 确定具体因素,如人员数量,财政资源和国家政策,这些因素会影响FQHC提供的口腔健康服务的多样性.
主要方法:
- 来自统一数据系统 (UDS) 的数据分析,涵盖2012-2021年.
- 利用多层混合效应负二项式回归模型来评估变量之间的关系.
- 调整了FQHC特征,州级因素和调查年份的回归模型,以确保可靠的调查结果.
主要成果:
- 口腔卫生人员的每一个额外的全职相当 (FTE) 与口腔卫生访问的显著增加相关,从0.8%到13.7%.
- 资本发展补助金占总收入的比例增加1%与预防性牙科诊所增加32%有关.
- 拥有全面成人医疗补助牙科覆盖的州的FQHC显示,与覆盖范围有限的州相比,服务提供量增加的趋势.
结论:
- 加强牙科人员,特别是牙科卫生师/治疗师,可以显著提高FQHC提供预防性口腔健康服务的能力.
- 资本发展资助在支持和扩大FQHC内的预防性牙科护理提供方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
- 更广泛的医疗补助 (Medicaid) 牙科覆盖政策显示出在服务不足群体中增加口腔卫生服务利用率的潜力,从而减少健康差异.
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