There is a globally observed unequal distribution of dental and other health practitioners
between urban and rural areas in OECD countries. Dental practitioners provide important …

Abstract Background: The recently published National Survey of Adult Oral Health 2004–06
indicated that tooth loss, mean decayed and number of DMF teeth were all higher outside …

Australia's dental workforce is largely metropolitan, with a corresponding lack of dentists in
rural areas. Some evidence from the discipline of medicine suggests that providing a rural …

Objectives: To describe the development and implementation of a new rural dental
outplacement module in the final year curriculum and report initial student perceptions …

La epidemiología espacial se utiliza para describir, cuantificar y explicar las variaciones
geográficas de las enfermedades; para evaluar la relación entre la incidencia de …

Objectives: For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, access to oral health care is
complicated by a maldistribution of dentists in regional areas. To address this problem in Far …

Australians living in rural and remote areas have poorer access to dental care. This situation
is attributed to workforce shortages, limited facilities and large distances to care centres …

After decades of effort, the health outcomes in India are still poor. In addition to the slow
socioeconomic development and sluggish progress in poverty eradication, the ongoing poor …

La epidemiología espacial se utiliza para describir, cuantificar y explicar las variaciones
geográficas de las enfermedades; para evaluar la relación entre la incidencia de …

Spatial Epidemiology is used to describe, quantify and explain the geographical variations
of diseases, to evaluate the association between the incidence of diseases and potential risk …