Health Policy & Health Services Research, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, 750 Albany Street, 560, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
J Public Health Dent. 2010 Jun;70 Suppl 1:S58-65. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-7325.2010.00185.x.
The elimination of oral health disparities in the US will require enhancing access to oral health care services. The workshop convened in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine on the "US Oral Health Workforce in the Coming Decade" highlighted both the current workforce's failure to meet the nation's needs as well as the promising opportunities presented by various workforce strategies to significantly enhance access and improve oral health outcomes. In this article, we have briefly reviewed and expanded on the contributions in this special issue of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, with the goal of identifying common themes and providing a framework for evaluation. There are several key areas where change is critically needed in order to ensure successful implementation of any new workforce models. These areas include a) the public and private financing of dental care, b) the dental educational system, and c) state and federal policies.
美国需要消除口腔健康差距，这就要求增加获得口腔保健服务的机会。2009 年，美国医学研究所就“未来十年美国口腔卫生队伍”问题召开了一次研讨会，会议既强调了当前卫生队伍无法满足国家需求的现状，也提出了通过各种卫生队伍战略来显著增加获得机会和改善口腔健康结果的有希望的机会。在本文中，我们简要回顾并扩展了《公共卫生牙科学杂志》特刊中的各项贡献，旨在确定共同主题并提供评估框架。为了确保任何新的劳动力模式的成功实施，有几个关键领域急需变革。这些领域包括：a）公共和私人牙科保健资金；b）牙科教育系统；c）州和联邦政策。
