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Distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists and their correlations in different regions of Taiwan in 2020

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Taiwan is facing the problems of the surplus, the uneven distribution, and the urban-rural gap of dental students and practicing dentists. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists in different regions of Taiwan in...

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Autores principales: Chang, Julia Yu-Fong, Cheng, Feng-Chou, Liu, Tsui-Hua, Lin, Tzu-Chiang, Chang, Yung-Ta, Chiang, Chun-Pin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Dental Sciences of the Republic of China 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8403807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jds.2021.06.001
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author Chang, Julia Yu-Fong
Cheng, Feng-Chou
Liu, Tsui-Hua
Lin, Tzu-Chiang
Chang, Yung-Ta
Chiang, Chun-Pin
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Cheng, Feng-Chou
Liu, Tsui-Hua
Lin, Tzu-Chiang
Chang, Yung-Ta
Chiang, Chun-Pin
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description BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Taiwan is facing the problems of the surplus, the uneven distribution, and the urban-rural gap of dental students and practicing dentists. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists in different regions of Taiwan in 2020. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We collected the numbers of dental freshmen and practicing dentists in different regions of Taiwan in 2020 for evaluation of their regional distributions in Taiwan and their relationship by the regression analysis. RESULTS: The numbers of dental freshmen and of practicing dentists per 100,000 people in municipalities were higher than those in non-municipalities (P < 0.01 for practicing dentists only). These corresponding numbers in cities with dental schools were significantly higher than those in cities and counties without dental schools, respectively (all P-values < 0.05). In addition, the coefficients of correlation between the dentist index and the dental student index were R(2) = 0.7521 (P < 0.05) for municipalities (n = 6), R(2) = 0.6332 (P < 0.001) for non-municipalities (n = 15), R(2) = 0.9334 (P < 0.05) for cities with dental schools (n = 4), R(2) = 0.4925 (P < 0.01) for cities and counties without dental schools (n = 17), and R(2) = 0.5025 (P < 0.001) for nationwide (n = 21). CONCLUSION: The dental freshmen and practicing dentists are still more concentrated in municipalities than in non-municipalities and in cities with dental schools than in cities and counties without dental schools in Taiwan in 2020.
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spelling pubmed-84038072021-09-03 Distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists and their correlations in different regions of Taiwan in 2020 Chang, Julia Yu-Fong Cheng, Feng-Chou Liu, Tsui-Hua Lin, Tzu-Chiang Chang, Yung-Ta Chiang, Chun-Pin J Dent Sci Original Article BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Taiwan is facing the problems of the surplus, the uneven distribution, and the urban-rural gap of dental students and practicing dentists. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists in different regions of Taiwan in 2020. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We collected the numbers of dental freshmen and practicing dentists in different regions of Taiwan in 2020 for evaluation of their regional distributions in Taiwan and their relationship by the regression analysis. RESULTS: The numbers of dental freshmen and of practicing dentists per 100,000 people in municipalities were higher than those in non-municipalities (P < 0.01 for practicing dentists only). These corresponding numbers in cities with dental schools were significantly higher than those in cities and counties without dental schools, respectively (all P-values < 0.05). In addition, the coefficients of correlation between the dentist index and the dental student index were R(2) = 0.7521 (P < 0.05) for municipalities (n = 6), R(2) = 0.6332 (P < 0.001) for non-municipalities (n = 15), R(2) = 0.9334 (P < 0.05) for cities with dental schools (n = 4), R(2) = 0.4925 (P < 0.01) for cities and counties without dental schools (n = 17), and R(2) = 0.5025 (P < 0.001) for nationwide (n = 21). CONCLUSION: The dental freshmen and practicing dentists are still more concentrated in municipalities than in non-municipalities and in cities with dental schools than in cities and counties without dental schools in Taiwan in 2020. Association for Dental Sciences of the Republic of China 2021-10 2021-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8403807/ /pubmed/34484579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jds.2021.06.001 Text en © 2021 Association for Dental Sciences of the Republic of China. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Chang, Yung-Ta
Chiang, Chun-Pin
Distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists and their correlations in different regions of Taiwan in 2020
title Distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists and their correlations in different regions of Taiwan in 2020
title_full Distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists and their correlations in different regions of Taiwan in 2020
title_fullStr Distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists and their correlations in different regions of Taiwan in 2020
title_full_unstemmed Distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists and their correlations in different regions of Taiwan in 2020
title_short Distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists and their correlations in different regions of Taiwan in 2020
title_sort distributions of dental freshmen and practicing dentists and their correlations in different regions of taiwan in 2020
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8403807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jds.2021.06.001
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