TY  - BOOK
ED  - WHO Expert Committee on Alternative Systems of Oral Care Delivery.
ED  - World Health Organization.
TI  - Alternative systems of oral care delivery: report of a WHO expert committee [meeting held in Geneva from 28 November to 4 December 1985]
SN  - 9241207507
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Geneva
PB  - World Health Organization
KW  - Oral health
KW  - Dental health services
N2  - A future-oriented discussion of ways to revise present systems of oral health care so as to make them more relevant and responsive to the needs of society. The book opens with an overview of present systems of oral health care and a discussion of their positive and negative features. A second section, devoted to a discussion of the evolution of oral health care, provides important background information for understanding the main sources of resistance to revisions in present systems. To illustrate the design and operation of an alternative system, the report describes an innovative oral health care programme now being tested in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The programme is based on the principles of primary health care in the setting of the local community with support from centrally organized referral levels. The concluding sections discuss ways in which an analysis of oral health care needs and the work skills required can improve the cost-effectiveness, productivity, and efficiency of oral health services
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