Is social enterprise good for dentistry?

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the need to build back dental services in a more equitable way that targets oral health inequalities and addresses persistently poor oral health in socially excluded groups. The aim of this article is to introduce the concept of social enterprise in...

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Autor principal: Witton, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8161704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34050294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-021-3020-1
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spelling pubmed-81617042021-05-28 Is social enterprise good for dentistry? Witton, Robert Br Dent J Opinion The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the need to build back dental services in a more equitable way that targets oral health inequalities and addresses persistently poor oral health in socially excluded groups. The aim of this article is to introduce the concept of social enterprise in dentistry, to discuss the role of social enterprise in the wider NHS and its place in the NHS Long Term Plan, and to highlight some of the benefits for patients, communities and the system that social enterprises can offer. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-05-28 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8161704/ /pubmed/34050294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-021-3020-1 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to the British Dental Association 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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