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Dental Care Services for Older Adults in Hong Kong—A Shared Funding, Administration, and Provision Mode
Hong Kong has a large and growing population of older adults but their oral health conditions and utilization of dental services are far from optimal. To reduce the financial barriers and to improve the accessibility of dental care services to the older adults, a number of programmes adopting an inn...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8067220/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33915802 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040390 |
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author | Yang, Stella Xinchen Leung, Katherine Chiu Man Jiang, Chloe Meng Lo, Edward Chin Man |
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description | Hong Kong has a large and growing population of older adults but their oral health conditions and utilization of dental services are far from optimal. To reduce the financial barriers and to improve the accessibility of dental care services to the older adults, a number of programmes adopting an innovative shared funding, administration, and provision mode have recently been implemented. In this review, an online search on the Hong Kong government websites and the electronic medical literature databases was conducted using keywords such as “dental care,” “dental service,” and “Hong Kong.” Dental care services for older adults in Hong Kong were identified. These programmes include government-funded outreach dental care service provided by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), provision of dentures and related treatments by private and NGO dentists supported by the Community Care Fund, and government healthcare vouchers for private healthcare, including dental, services. This paper presents the details of the operation of these programmes and the initial findings. There is indirect evidence that these public-funded dental care service programmes have gained acceptance and support from the government, the service recipients, and the providers. The experience gained is of great value for the development of appropriate dental care services for the older adults in Hong Kong and worldwide. |
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spelling | pubmed-80672202021-04-25 Dental Care Services for Older Adults in Hong Kong—A Shared Funding, Administration, and Provision Mode Yang, Stella Xinchen Leung, Katherine Chiu Man Jiang, Chloe Meng Lo, Edward Chin Man Healthcare (Basel) Review Hong Kong has a large and growing population of older adults but their oral health conditions and utilization of dental services are far from optimal. To reduce the financial barriers and to improve the accessibility of dental care services to the older adults, a number of programmes adopting an innovative shared funding, administration, and provision mode have recently been implemented. In this review, an online search on the Hong Kong government websites and the electronic medical literature databases was conducted using keywords such as “dental care,” “dental service,” and “Hong Kong.” Dental care services for older adults in Hong Kong were identified. These programmes include government-funded outreach dental care service provided by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), provision of dentures and related treatments by private and NGO dentists supported by the Community Care Fund, and government healthcare vouchers for private healthcare, including dental, services. This paper presents the details of the operation of these programmes and the initial findings. There is indirect evidence that these public-funded dental care service programmes have gained acceptance and support from the government, the service recipients, and the providers. The experience gained is of great value for the development of appropriate dental care services for the older adults in Hong Kong and worldwide. MDPI 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8067220/ /pubmed/33915802 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040390 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Yang, Stella Xinchen Leung, Katherine Chiu Man Jiang, Chloe Meng Lo, Edward Chin Man Dental Care Services for Older Adults in Hong Kong—A Shared Funding, Administration, and Provision Mode |
title | Dental Care Services for Older Adults in Hong Kong—A Shared Funding, Administration, and Provision Mode |
title_full | Dental Care Services for Older Adults in Hong Kong—A Shared Funding, Administration, and Provision Mode |
title_fullStr | Dental Care Services for Older Adults in Hong Kong—A Shared Funding, Administration, and Provision Mode |
title_full_unstemmed | Dental Care Services for Older Adults in Hong Kong—A Shared Funding, Administration, and Provision Mode |
title_short | Dental Care Services for Older Adults in Hong Kong—A Shared Funding, Administration, and Provision Mode |
title_sort | dental care services for older adults in hong kong—a shared funding, administration, and provision mode |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8067220/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33915802 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040390 |
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