Racial/Ethnic Variations of Practicing Dentists

Brown, L. Jackson; Wagner, Karen Schaid; Johns, Beverly

doi:10.14219/jada.archive.2000.0122

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“…Our findings confirm previously reported patterns of minority dentists’ serving minority patient populations and show for the first time the geographic variability in these patterns across regions and minority groups, thereby providing information to help inform local solutions to address these disparities. [16]…”

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“…Estimating patient mix from the demographic characteristics of the surrounding community[17] or from provider survey data[16] are common workforce analysis methods, but both are prone to misestimation. [27] This study combines these methods for a more robust analysis of provider location, but still has limitations.…”

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“…Underrepresented minority providers are more likely than non-minority providers to work in or near minority communities and to treat minority patients. [16,17] Greater access to and use of care is thought to stem, in part, from better relationships and communication between providers and patients who share the same racial/ethnic background (that is, who have what is known as racial concordance), which in turn leads to better acceptance of health care. [15] Yet evidence that racial concordance improves health outcomes remains inconclusive, which is unsurprising given the myriad factors involved in producing health.…”

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Underrepresented Minority Dentists: Quantifying Their Numbers And Characterizing The Communities They Serve

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The underrepresentation of Blacks, Hispanics or Latinos, and American Indians or Alaska Natives among dentists raises concerns about the diversity of the dental workforce, disparities in access to dental care and in oral health status, and social justice. We quantified the shortage of underrepresented minority dentists and examined these dentists’ practice patterns in relation to the characteristics of the communities they serve. The underrepresented minority dentist workforce is disproportionately smaller than, and unevenly distributed in relation to, minority populations in the United States. Members of minority groups represent larger shares of these dentists’ patient panels than of the populations in the communities where the dentists are located. Compared to counties with no underrepresented minority dentists, counties with one or more such dentists are more racially diverse and affluent but also have greater economic and social inequality. Current policy approaches to improve the diversity of the dental workforce are a critical first step, but more must be done to improve equity in dental health.

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“…Black and Latino dentists have been shown to be more likely to treat patients whose annual income is less that $15,000 (21). Additionally, recent research documents that Black patients comprise 62 percent of the patients seen by Black dentists, and White patients comprise 77 percent of the patients seen by White dentists (21).…”

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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Acceptance of Medicaid Patients in Dental Practices

Okunseri¹,

Bajorunaite²,

Abena³

et al. 2008

J Public Health Dent

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“…For example, older, newly graduated, and female dentists work fewer hours, and female dentists see fewer patients per hour and have fewer staff . Another finding is that nonwhite dentists are more likely to have nonwhite or low‐income patients . The CDS data show that most California dentists are white or Asian American, which is discordant with the size of the Latino and African American populations.…”

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Assessing the contribution of the dental care delivery system to oral health care disparities

Pourat

Andersen

Marcus

2014

J Public Health Dent

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Objectives Existing studies of disparities in access to oral health care for underserved populations often focus on supply measures such as number of dentist. This approach overlooks the importance of other aspects of dental care delivery system such as personal and practice characteristics of dentists that determine the capacity to provide care. This study aims to assess the role of such characteristics in access to care of underserved populations. Methods We merged the 2003 California Health Interview Survey and a 2003 survey of California dentists at the Medical Study Service Areas (MSSA). We examined the role of overall supply and other characteristics of dentists in income and racial/ethnic disparities in access, which was measured by annual dental visits and unmet need for dental care due to costs. Results We found that some characteristics including higher proportion of dentists who were older, white, busy or overworked, and did not accept public insurance or discounted fees in the MSSA inhibited access for low income and minority populations. Conclusions These findings highlight the importance of monitoring characteristics of dentists in addition to traditional measures of supply such as licensed dentist to population ratios. The findings identify specific aspects of the delivery system such as dentists’ participation in Medicaid, provision of discounted care, busyness, age, race/ethnicity, and gender should be regularly monitored. These data will provide a better understanding of how the dental delivery system is organized and how this knowledge can be used to develop more narrowly targeted policies to alleviate disparities.

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Racial/Ethnic Variations of Practicing Dentists

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Underrepresented Minority Dentists: Quantifying Their Numbers And Characterizing The Communities They Serve

Underrepresented Minority Dentists: Quantifying Their Numbers And Characterizing The Communities They Serve

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Acceptance of Medicaid Patients in Dental Practices

Assessing the contribution of the dental care delivery system to oral health care disparities

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