scholarly journals National dental waitlists: what would it take to reset to zero?

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yevgeni Dudko ◽  
Estie Kruger ◽  
Marc Tennant
Keyword(s):  
Dental Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Dental Clinics ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Public Dental Care

Objective Over the years, long public dental waitlists across Australia have received much attention from the media. The issue for eligible patients, namely a further deterioration of dental health because of not being able to address dental concerns relatively quickly, has been the subject of several state and Federal initiatives. The present study provides a cost model for eliminating public dental waitlists across Australia and compares these results with the cost of contracting out public dental care to private clinics. Methods Waitlist data from across Australia were collected from publicly available sources and confirmed through direct communication with each individual State or Territory Dental Health body. Average costs associated with employing key dental personnel and performance figures were used from previously published data to estimate the potential financial commitment and probable public benefits. Results The cost model suggests that, on average, it would be more than twice as expensive to contract the work out to private dental clinics as to treat eligible patients within public dental clinics. It is estimated that the cost of eliminating the legacy dental waiting lists (over 12 months) would be between A$50 and A$100 million depending on the method adopted. The effort would require some 360 dental teams. Conclusion The design of the Australian public dental care system that is targeted at meeting the needs of eligible patients into the future, in addition to being effective and sustainable, must also offer a level of protection to the taxpayer. The ability to address waitlist backlog identified in the present study clearly would require a mix of service models depending on service availability at different locations. Further research is needed to optimise the mix of service providers to address community needs. What is known about the topic? Long public dental waitlists across Australia have received much attention from the media. The topic has been the subject of debate at the government level and, over the years, has seen an increase in allocation of public funds in an effort to address the policy needs. What does this paper add? This study calculates the actual number of people on the public dental waitlist, provides a detailed analysis of the distribution of the demand for the services and offers a cost model for resetting public dental waitlists across Australia. What are the implications for practitioners? This study carries no implications for individual practitioners at the clinical level. However, at the state and national levels, this model offers direction to a more cost-effective allocation of public funds and human resources.

scholarly journals El retorno de la inversión en las relaciones públicas, una revisión bibliográfica

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Francisco Leslie Lopez-del-Castillo-Wilderbeek
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Financial Measurement

This research has carried out a systematized bibliographic review to analyze how the return on investment (ROI) in communication, and specifically in public relations, has been theoretically treated. The financial measurement of communication outcomes represents a topic of great interest for the academic community because organizations need to know the real results of their communication efforts. At the same time, economic measurement turns out to be a variable that can be understood by the management of the organizations and allows them to know where the money is being spent. However, despite more than forty years of theoretical work, a homogeneous nor globally accepted solution has not yet been achieved. The bibliographical study of the return on investment in communication, and especially in public relations, shows the difficulty of turning the success of the activity of public relations professionals into money. On the one hand, there is no doubt that the ROI is directly related to financial data; on the other hand, in communication it is usual to introduce non-economic values to evaluate the results achieved. The bibliographical results indicate in the first instance that, on a quantitative level, the economic aspect is predominant in the calculation of the ROI (96.3%). In this context measurement by equivalence in advertising (AVE) is an economic model as used by professionals as it is rejected by researchers. It is based on comparing the cost of a presence in the media with the equivalent cost if it were advertising. Nevertheless, this model is criticized for the differences between advertising (a completely controlled message) and publicity (a message that is altered by the media). However, taking the previous works about the subject, it can be said that the evaluation of public relations actions can be dealt with from the perspective of opportunity cost: the loss of other alternatives when one alternative is chosen. In this way, the evaluation of the cost of a traditional advertising action can be compared with the cost of other options available to public relations professionals. For example, native advertising is a resource of public relations teams whose cost can easily be compared to traditional advertising. Native advertising is a paid promotion that matches the audience's consumption and contains information of interest to the advertiser. Hence opinions that reject the advertising equivalence measurement (AVE) are not justified when the product generated by public relations has the characteristics of native advertising because in both cases (advertising vs. native advertising) the professional can exactly compare the investment made with one instead of the other.

scholarly journals QUALITY ACCREDITATIONS OF DENTAL CLINICS: NEED OF THE HOUR

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manjusha Dhule
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Dental Clinics ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Peer Reviewers ◽  
Voluntary Programme

ABSTRACT: Accreditation is usually a voluntary programme in which trained external peer reviewers evaluate a healthcare organization's compliance and compare it with pre-established performance standards. The aim of this article is to provide information about accreditation programmes applicable for dentistry. The article is more focused on NABH Accreditations for DHSP (Dental Health Service Providers) specifically for dental clinics. KEYWORDS: Quality accreditations, Dental Clinics, ISO, NABH, JCI

scholarly journals Discourse Representation of Consumerism in Mobile Telecommunication Television Advertisements

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-185
Author(s):  
Fredrick Friday John
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Mobile Telecommunication ◽  
Telecommunication Services ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Television Advertisements ◽  
Service Option ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Textual Meaning

Telecommunication advertisements have bifurcating relations, functioning as a buoyant part of the capitalist market, and as instruments indexing consumerism, which bridges the gap between service providers and subscribers. Previous linguistic studies on the subject have focused on speech acts, mainly locutionary and illocutionary acts, and the lexical and stylistic resources in telecommunication advertisements. This study focuses on the representations of consumerism in MTN and GLO advertisements. The study adopts a model labeled as conceptual-textual meaning in advertisements, which annexes the principles of critical stylistics, pragmatic acts, and multimodality to analyse both textual and multimodal excerpts from ten (10) MTN and GLO television advertisements. These were downloaded from youtube, where they are streamed to reach a vast majority of internet users after they had been aired on mainstream television and cable stations. The study reveals that consumerism is the most pivotal feature projected in the advertisements of MTN and GLO. Advertisements and services are principally designed to condition choice of the subscribers to expand their consumptions. Consumerism is metaphorised, using food substances and materials co-opted from the socio-cultural milieus that condition the advertisements. Conceptual-textual functions like naming and describing, enumerating and exemplifying and prioritising, and direct acts, indirect acts, conversation, emotional and psychological acts, as well as the textual resources of inference, metaphor, reference, relevance, and metapragmatic joker are used extensively to show consumerism. The study concludes every service option is aimed at expanding consumerism, while the cost of services, interest, and use of the services are the shades of consumption of telecommunication services

scholarly journals Person-Centered Care: Perspectives of free dental clinic users in Montréal, Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nioushah Noushi ◽  
Christophe Bedos ◽  
Nareg Apelian ◽  
Jean-Noel Vergnes ◽  
Charo Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Dental Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Sampling Strategy ◽  
Free Clinics ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Dental Clinic ◽  
Dental Clinics ◽  
Person Centered Care ◽  
Centered Care

There has been a relatively slow incorporation of person-centered care into dental care. Despite the efforts to sustain this approach in dental health care delivery, the perspectives of patients have yet to be considered, especially those using free dental clinics. Our objectives were: (1) to describe the perspectives of adults unable to access private dental clinics when using free dental clinics, (2) to document their suggestions for improvements to dental care. This qualitative descriptive study included 13 adults using a free dental clinic. To select participants, we adopted a maximum variation sampling strategy regarding age, sex, marital status, education level and employment status. We used in-depth, semi-structured interviews to collect data and thematic content analysis to analyze the verbatim transcripts. Participants were generally satisfied with the dental care they received in private and free dental clinics. However, they did not appreciate the long wait times at free clinics, and were bothered by the cost at private clinics. They emphasized a desire for quality time with the dentist allowing for more informed and shared decisions about their care, regardless of the clinic they visited. Participants want to feel cared for through a trustworthy relationship with the clinician, and suggested incorporating a walk-in concept into free clinics to address access to care. Adults using free dental clinics have various experiences with private and public dentistry, but they all need clinicians who adopt a comprehensive approach when providing information. This could improve patients’experiences through a more person-centered approach to dental care.

scholarly journals BIOMEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE DENTAL CLINICS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-53
Author(s):  
Abhimanyu Sharma ◽  
Sneha Sekhsaria ◽  
Rajni Khatri ◽  
Lokesh Chandra ◽  
Sonal Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
World Health ◽  
Biomedical Waste ◽  
Dental Health Care ◽  
Dental Clinics

Biomedical waste management is one of the emerging causes for Hospital Acquired Infection, which is very important to deal with due to its significant impact on the health and environment. Biomedical waste generated in dental clinics and hospitals if not managed properly, can create various health hazards to dental professionals, dental auxiliaries, patients and other dental health care service providers who work in dental office. Each dental health care provider should have knowledge about handling and disposal of biomedical waste. In this article different methods of handling and disposal of biomedical waste during the unprecedented times of COVID-19 are elaborated. Revised guidelines are provided by central pollution control board (Govt of India), American dental association, Centre for disease control, world health organization and other organizations dealing with waste management are discussed in this article.

scholarly journals Edukasi Kuliah WhatsUp Group (KulWaG) Dalam Tingkat Pemahaman Perawatan Gigi Pada Lansia Pada Komunitas Lansia Binaan Rumah Sakit Islam Surabaya

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 386
Author(s):  
Umi Hanik ◽  
Evy Afiyah Syagran ◽  
Budhi Setianto ◽  
Difran Nobel Bistara ◽  
Agus Aan Adriansyah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Dental Health Care ◽  
Dental Clinics ◽  
Educational Videos

AbstrakKesehatan gigi pada lansia sangat penting untuk diperhatikan, masalah kesehatan gigi akan berdampak buruk bagi gizi lansia. Beberapa penelitian menujukkan pentingnya menjaga kesehatan gigi pada lansia sehingga tidak memberikan dampak yang buruk bagi lansia. Pengabdian masyaakat ini (1) Membuat leaflet terkait perawatan gigi anak sebagai bahan edukasi kepada masyarakat, (2) Menyelenggarakan kuliah Whatsup Grup (WAG) tentang perawatan gigi anak, (3) Membuat video edukasi terkait perawatan gigi anak sebagai bahan edukasi kepada masyarakat, (4) Melakukan edukasi melalui Youtube Chanel tentang perawatan gigi lansia. Dari pelaksanaan dapat disimpulkan pembuatan Leaflet yang sudah dibuat sangat memberikan manfaat kepada semua pengunjung poli gigi RS Islam Surabaya meningkatkan pengetahuan para ibu untuk pentingnya menjaga kesehatan gigi lansia. Kuliah WAG yang diadakan mampu meningkatkan pengetahuan peserta dengan kenaikan pengetahuan sebesar 19,2 %. Bagi lansia yang belum berkesempatan mengikuti kuliah WAG bisa berkesempatan untuk melihat youtube chanel RS Islam Surabaya dengan tema tingkat pemahaman ibu terhadap pemahaman perawatan kesehatan gigi pada lansiaKata Kunci: Kesehatan gigi lansia, perawatan gigi, kesehatan gigi, Youtube ChanelAbstractDental health in the elderly is very important to note, dental health nutritional problems will have a bad impact on the elderly. Several studies have shown the importance of maintaining dental health in the elderly so that it does not have a bad impact on the elderly. This community service (1) makes leaflets related to children's dental care as educational materials for the community, (2) organizes Whatsup Group (WAG) lectures on children's dental care, (3) makes educational videos related to children's dental care as educational materials for the community, ( 4) provide education through the Youtube Chanel about elderly dental care. Visitors can ensure that the leaflets that have been made are very useful for all dental clinics at the Surabaya Islamic Hospital to increase the importance of maintaining the dental health of the elderly. The WAG lectures that were held were able to increase participants' knowledge with an increase in knowledge of 19.2%. For the elderly who have not had the opportunity to attend WAG lectures, they can have the opportunity to see the YouTube channel of the Surabaya Islamic Hospital with the theme of the level of mother's understanding of the understanding of dental health care in the elderly.Keywords: Elderly dental health, dental care, dental health, Youtube Chanel

scholarly journals Sistem Pakar Berbasis Web Menggunakan Metode Forward Chaining Untuk Mendiagnosa Penyakit Pulpa Dan Periapikal

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-193
Author(s):  
Irfan Mahendra ◽  
Fadhilah Fadhilah ◽  
Ilfa Khairina
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Expert System ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
System Application ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Forward Chaining ◽  
The Cost

Pulp and periacal disease is happening in Indonesia. This is because knowledge and people awarness to take care their dental health is in low level, so that a few of people in Indonesia do not know types, symptoms, and the solution, how to resolve the problem. Altough pulp and periacal disease have a bad impact like the patient's quality of life. Besides the cost of expensive dental care and have an impact on a person's overall health, such as can cause catastrophic diseases such as stroke, heart desease, and kidney. Based on these conditions, very important to make a web-based expert system to diagnose this problem with forward chaining methode. The expert system is created using  Dreamweaver C56, PHP, CSS, and MySQL. Through this system application, people will find out the information and get consultations about pulp and periapical disease easily and quickly, so that it can be dealt with quickly and correctly.

User-centric framework to facilitate trust worthy cloud service provider selection based on fuzzy inference system

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
M. Sujatha ◽  
K. Geetha ◽  
P. Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Inference System ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Service Selection ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Inference System ◽  
The Cost

The widespread adoption of cloud computing by several companies across diverse verticals of different sizes has led to an exponential growth of Cloud Service Providers (CSP). Multiple CSPs offer homogeneous services with a vast array of options and different pricing policies, making the suitable service selection process complex. Our proposed model simplifies the IaaS selection process that can be used by all users including clients from the non-IT background. In the first phase, requirements are gathered using a simple questionnaire and are mapped with the compute services among different alternatives.In the second phase, we have implemented the Sugeno Fuzzy inference system to rank the service providers based on the QoS attributes to ascertain the appropriate selection. In the third phase, we have applied the cost model to identify the optimal CSP. This framework is validated by applying it for a gaming application use case and it has outperformed the online tools thus making it an exemplary model.

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