A marketing strategy for the dental public health profession: what is it? Why is it needed?
A personnel management problem exists within dental public health that interferes with its mission of improving the nation's oral health. A major cause of this problem may be that many administrators who write position descriptions and hire professional staff are unaware of differences between clinical and public health dental practitioners. A marketing plan has been developed to address this lack of awareness about proper use of dental public health professionals. Its main goal is to establish more appropriate personnel and employment practices within dental public health. The expected outcomes of this plan could assist both recipients of dental public health services and members of the profession. The purpose of this article is to introduce the marketing strategy to dental public health professionals.
Simon-Rusinowitz
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Fellowship Programs in Applied Gerontology, Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC 20005.
D000288:Administrative Personnel; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003749:Dental Facilities; D003756:Dental Hygienists / Q000600:supply & distribution; D003815:Dentists / Q000600:supply & distribution; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D010559:Personnel Management; D010560:Personnel Selection; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011636:Public Health Dentistry / Q000191:economics; D000078329:Workforce