...Neville Doherty Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Competition in the Provision of Dental Services-Impacts on Providers and Consumers: An Introduction Neville Doherty, University of Connecticut Health Center...

.... of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 A Full-Price Approach to the Dental Market: Implications for Price Determination Donald R. f-louse, Resources Research Corporation Abstract. Policy initiated in the 1970s follows the contention that competitive forces do not work...

...Douglas A. Conrad; Marie L. Emerson This article analyzes the effects of state dental practice acts on competition in the market for dental services. Three types of practice act provisions are examined: (1) restraints on advertising and soliciting of patients; (2) limits on scope of practice...

...John E. Kushman Evidence from the economics literature is examined with reference to whether prices of dental services tend to equal or exceed production costs, and whether dentists may be characterized as price-takers or price-setters. Ability to generalize from the methods and conceptualization...

...Robert Thomas Kudrle Although foreign experience with public medical insurance has played an important role in U.S. policy debates, little attention has been paid to foreign dental benefits. This article examines principally the experience of four countries: New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden...

... Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 A Bibliography of Dental Economic Research 1. J. Abramowitz and L. E. Berg, “A Four Year Study of the Utilization of Dental Assistants with Expanded Functions,” Journal of the American Dental...

...Jean M. Mitchell; Darrell J. Gaskin Although not widely recognized, tooth decay is the most common childhood chronic disease among children ages five to seventeen. Despite higher rates of dental caries and greater needs, low-income minority children enrolled in Medicaid are more likely to go...

...Kenneth C. Fraundorf Organized dentistry spent nearly a century laboring to obtain control over entry into the profession. The first attempt, the American Society of Dental Surgeons, failed because the issue of using amalgam so split the Society that collective action became impossible. The second...

.... Methods: The authors analyze how 12 representative states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Texas) respond when people with criminal records apply for a license for five entry-level allied health professions (dental...

...Steven W. Howard; Stephanie L. Bernell; Jangho Yoon; Jeff Luck Abstract Continuing its path of Medicaid program innovation, Oregon recently embarked on a major reform that gives regional coordinated care organizations (CCOs) global budgets and accountability for the physical, behavioral, and dental...

... organizations (CCOs) and the state. Equally important, the Oregon experiment mandates coverage of medical, behavioral, and dental health care using flexible coverage, with the locus of delivery innovation focused at the individual CCO level and with financial consequences for quality-of-care metrics...

... be pursued, as should experiments with different institutional arrangements for what they may reveal about the relationship between present prices and costs of production. Notes 1. Alex R. Maurizi, “Rates of Return to Dentistry and the Decision to Enter Dental School,” Journal of Human...

...Douglas A. Conrad Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Preface Special Section on Dental Policy Douglas A. Conrad, University of Washington This special section of the Journal reflects the growing importance...

... for new tests and procedures regardless of economic efficiency. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 References American Dental Association. 1980 . Dental Prepayment. Chicago: ADA. Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. 1987 . Guidelines on Diagnostic Testing Will Lead to Cost...

...Jesse S. Hixson Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 House ?? Full-Price Approach to the Dental Market 607 18. See U. S. Department of Labor, Handbook of Labor Statistics, 1978 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Labor Statistics, p.1978...

.... NeviZZe Doherty (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Community Health at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington. He is currently on sabbat- ical as Visiting Professor of Health Economics at the Catholic...

... of the physical, dental and mental health statuses and needs of the study children.' Each assessment included a complete and careful medical history and a physical examina- tion; vision, audiometric, dental screening tests and a laboratory work- up, a developmental examination for infants...

... regulatory action is available. Duke University Press 2006 Areeda, Phillip E., and Herbert Hovenkamp. 2000 . Antitrust Law . New York: Aspen Law and Business. Calkins, Stephen. 2000 . California Dental Association: Not a Quick Look but Not the Full Monty. Antitrust Law Journal 67 : 495...

...? Pediatrics 105 : 780 -788. Amschler, D. 2003 . A Hidden Epidemic: Dental Disparities among Children. Journal of School Health 73 : 38 -40. Baquiran, R. S., M. P. Webber, and D. K. Appel. 2002 . Comparing Frequent and Average Users of Elementary School-Based Health Centers in the Bronx, New...

... Trade Com­ mission’s activities concerning dentistry, addresses a core issue in the current controversy concerning the competitive structure of the dental market: that is, whether state practice acts designed to protect the con­ sumer have, by enforcement, been used as the buttresses...