TY - JOUR
T1 - Dental Policy Lab 2 - towards paying for health in dentistry
AU - Mazevet, Marco E.
AU - Pitts, Nigel B.
AU - Mayne, Catherine
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding information iTh s project was partially funded through a grant from Colgate-Palmolive Company to the Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future charity.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to the British Dental Association.
PY - 2021/12/17
Y1 - 2021/12/17
N2 - The first Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future (ACFF)/King's College London Dental Policy Lab, held in 2017, identified the need for a review of dental payment systems in order to see progress towards achieving improvements in caries and cavities. The lack of incentivisation for preventive intervention and care has long been a barrier to progress. The second Dental Policy Lab, held in July 2018, focused on this issue with the overarching question: 'How can we create and implement acceptable prevention-based dental payment systems to achieve and maintain health outcomes?' Using a design approach and participatory research, 29 participants from five stakeholder categories developed a blueprint report that aims to serve as a framework to adapt or create remuneration systems that are compatible with evidence-based dentistry with a focus on preventive care. Aimed at policymakers and policy entrepreneurs, this blueprint provides guidance and potential solutions using several international examples. The report and accompanying infographic explored in this paper have been well received and have helped to frame discussions in several country settings, with a direct implementation which is being trialled in France in 2021.
AB - The first Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future (ACFF)/King's College London Dental Policy Lab, held in 2017, identified the need for a review of dental payment systems in order to see progress towards achieving improvements in caries and cavities. The lack of incentivisation for preventive intervention and care has long been a barrier to progress. The second Dental Policy Lab, held in July 2018, focused on this issue with the overarching question: 'How can we create and implement acceptable prevention-based dental payment systems to achieve and maintain health outcomes?' Using a design approach and participatory research, 29 participants from five stakeholder categories developed a blueprint report that aims to serve as a framework to adapt or create remuneration systems that are compatible with evidence-based dentistry with a focus on preventive care. Aimed at policymakers and policy entrepreneurs, this blueprint provides guidance and potential solutions using several international examples. The report and accompanying infographic explored in this paper have been well received and have helped to frame discussions in several country settings, with a direct implementation which is being trialled in France in 2021.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41415-021-3725-1
DO - 10.1038/s41415-021-3725-1
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34921273
AN - SCOPUS:85121494106
SN - 0007-0610
VL - 231
SP - 759
EP - 763
JO - British Dental Journal
JF - British Dental Journal
IS - 12
ER -
