title: Transactions of an international conference. Worldwide concern: better dental care for more people. An international collaborative study. How the study was designed.
abstract: The study originated from the common need felt by the United States Public Health Service and the World Health Organization for objective information about various national dental care delivery systems and their effectiveness in the societies in which they were used. The relationships between consumers, providers and administrators within each system were emphasized rather than the comparison between systems since each operated within a specific biological and ecological environment. Six systems all of which had been in existence for at least twenty years were originally selected for study to encompass those dependent on a majority of government or private enterprise, use or non-use of auxiliaries, differeing systems of financing and of definition of target groups for receipt of services. The countries originally taking part were Australia, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Norway and Bulgaria, though Bulgaria withdrew early in 1975.
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003726:Dental Assistants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003729:Dental Care; D003753:Dental Health Surveys; D003815:Dentists; D005380:Financing, Government; D005382:Financing, Personal; D006077:Government Agencies; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D012107:Research Design; D014944:World Health Organization