NC’s Oral Health Workforce: Distribution, Diversity, and Access to Care
May 10, 2017
Julie Spero, MSPH; Jacqueline Burgette; Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP; Evan Galloway, MPS; Katie Gaul, MA; Thomas C. Ricketts, III, PhD, MPH
Presentation to the NC Dental Public Health Educational Conference
Presentation Overview
- Concerns about NC dentist supply
- Dentists are geographically maldistributed
- Progress to be made on race & gender diversity
- You can explore the data in our interactive website
- https://nchealthworkforce.sirs.unc.edu/
- Dental schools help shape NC’s workforce
- Growing our own dentists
- Other states are changing what providers do
- Sometimes SOP, sometimes not