Tickle M
Dental Public Health, South Cheshire Health, Chester.
Prim Dent Care. 1997 Sep;4(3):85-7.
The first paper gave an overview of the issues concerning clinical effectiveness and primary dental care. However, the rise of evidence-based health care has the potential to increase as well as control costs. With the demands on health care ever increasing, the costs of interventions as well as their benefits must be assessed concurrently. This is the area covered by the science of health economics, which will play an increasing role throughout all health services as an aid to prioritising the deployment of resources. It is inevitable, therefore, that the theories and methods of health economics will affect the delivery of primary dental care in the future.
第一篇论文概述了有关临床疗效和初级牙科保健的问题。然而，循证医疗保健的兴起有可能在控制成本的同时增加成本。随着对医疗保健的需求不断增加，干预措施的成本及其效益必须同时进行评估。这是健康经济学这门科学所涵盖的领域，作为一种辅助资源分配优先级的手段，它将在所有医疗服务中发挥越来越重要的作用。因此，健康经济学的理论和方法在未来影响初级牙科保健的提供是不可避免的。
