| Description |
1 online resource (250 pages) |
| Series |
Publications in the health sciences |
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Publications in the health sciences.
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| Contents |
Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; Introduction; 1. Market Forces; 2. The Delivery of Dental Care; 3. Auxiliary Personnel; 4. Cost Containment in Dental Education; 5. Prevention of Oral Disease; 6. Quality Assurance; 7. Summary and Research Suggestions; Index |
| Summary |
Spiraling heath care costs have encouraged health care practitioners, public policy-makers, and consumers to find ways of maintaining high quality care at affordable rates. Reducing the Cost of Dental Care examines a number of ways in which cost savings might be realized in dentistry. This collection of papers, written by health economists and dentists, brings together economic issues and health care aspects of the debate. Each of the six chapters addresses a particular issue concerning cost and quality of care. Chapter one shows the probable effects on dental costs of advertising, franchising |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dental economics -- United States
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Dental care -- United States -- Cost control
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Dental care -- Cost control
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Dental economics
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816663361 |
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081666336X |
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