Projecting the Demand for Dental Care in 2040

The purpose of this study was to provide a forward-thinking assessment of the underlying factors likely to impact trends in dental care demand and the need for dental providers in 2020, 2025, and beyond. Dental workforce trends and their likely impact on the need for dentists are a function of predicted dental care demand, which will in turn be determined by the size and characteristics of our population size, economic outlook, the state of public and private dental care insurance, trends in dental care delivery, professionally determined dental care need, and population health beliefs. Projecting rates of dental care utilization far into the future is difficult because projections must be made using historical data, and established trends may not persist if there is structural change in the future. Nonetheless, when structural change occurs, it does not typically affect all aspects of the economy, so there is value in describing the likely future impact of current trends. This article was written as part of the project "Advancing Dental Education in the 21st Century.".

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:81

Enthalten in:

Journal of dental education - 81(2017), 8 vom: 04. Aug., Seite eS133-eS145

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Manski, Richard J [VerfasserIn]
Meyerhoefer, Chad D [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Dental care utilization
Dental workforce
Forecast
Journal Article
Projections

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 05.09.2017

Date Revised 08.04.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.21815/JDE.017.020

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM274396912