[Designing dental manpower index to evaluate dental manpower resources].
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this investigation is to find out a method to evaluate dental manpower resources.


METHODS
We selected population, GDP, number of dentist and number of different oral health professionals from certain internet stations, published books and journals from 1996 to 2000 as our investigating data.


RESULTS
Data was collected from 100 countries. Our investigation found that the design of dental manpower index to evaluate dental manpower resources was effective and convenient.


CONCLUSIONS
Dental manpower index is a good method to evaluate dental manpower resources.
Li
Gang
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Dept. of Health Statistics, West China Public Health School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
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Zong-zan
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D003726:Dental Assistants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003756:Dental Hygienists / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003813:Dentistry; D003815:Dentists / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D000078329:Workforce