Public Dental Service personnel facing a major health care reform in Finland
Objectives - A health care reform will replace the health care and social services centred on public provision with a market-oriented system and enhanced competition between public and private sectors. The aim was to ascertain Public Dental Services (PDS) changes personnel anticipated and how dental...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/16879 2023-05-15T17:42:37+02:00 Public Dental Service personnel facing a major health care reform in Finland Widström, Eeva Tiira, Hannele Tillberg, Anders 2019-04-11 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16879 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41405-019-0012-1 eng eng Springer Nature BDJ Open Widström E, Tiira H, Tillberg A. Public Dental Service personnel facing a major health care reform in Finland. BDJ Open. 2019;5(1) FRIDAID 1739813 doi:10.1038/s41405-019-0012-1 2056-807X https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16879 openAccess VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Clinical dentistry disciplines: 830 VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Klinisk odontologiske fag: 830 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2019 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1038/s41405-019-0012-1 2021-06-25T17:56:59Z Objectives - A health care reform will replace the health care and social services centred on public provision with a market-oriented system and enhanced competition between public and private sectors. The aim was to ascertain Public Dental Services (PDS) changes personnel anticipated and how dental services in the new “public” undertakings could be made more cost-efficient. Materials and methods - An electronic questionnaire was sent to the Chief Dentists of a random sample of 12 PDS units in southern and northern Finland for distribution to their personnel; 71.0% responded. Results - Most respondents (64.3%) believed that their PDS unit would not change. However, 45.4% foresaw a merger with another unit. More dentists (51.2%) were aware of market- and competition-oriented organisational forms to be introduced in the public sector than dental hygienists (35.0%) and dental assistants (27.3%; p < 0.01). Only 12.4% thought of moving to the private sector. To increase cost-efficiency in the new system, a majority suggested improvement in preventive care (79.8%) and increased use of dental hygienists (75.7%). A smaller proportion suggested longer opening hours (23.1%), higher patient fees (17.9%) or more paying patients (12.4%). Discussion -Public sector employees had little knowledge and understanding of the coming reform and were badly prepared for competition with the private sector. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive BDJ Open 5 1 |
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Objectives - A health care reform will replace the health care and social services centred on public provision with a market-oriented system and enhanced competition between public and private sectors. The aim was to ascertain Public Dental Services (PDS) changes personnel anticipated and how dental services in the new “public” undertakings could be made more cost-efficient. Materials and methods - An electronic questionnaire was sent to the Chief Dentists of a random sample of 12 PDS units in southern and northern Finland for distribution to their personnel; 71.0% responded. Results - Most respondents (64.3%) believed that their PDS unit would not change. However, 45.4% foresaw a merger with another unit. More dentists (51.2%) were aware of market- and competition-oriented organisational forms to be introduced in the public sector than dental hygienists (35.0%) and dental assistants (27.3%; p < 0.01). Only 12.4% thought of moving to the private sector. To increase cost-efficiency in the new system, a majority suggested improvement in preventive care (79.8%) and increased use of dental hygienists (75.7%). A smaller proportion suggested longer opening hours (23.1%), higher patient fees (17.9%) or more paying patients (12.4%). Discussion -Public sector employees had little knowledge and understanding of the coming reform and were badly prepared for competition with the private sector. |
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