Relationships between dental personnel and non-dental primary health care providers in rural and remote Queensland, Australia: dental perspectives
Relationships between dental personnel and non-dental primary health care providers in rural and remote Queensland, Australia: dental perspectives
BMC Oral Health
- Author(s): Stuart, Jackie, Hoang, Ha, Crocombe, Len, Barnett, Tony
- Published: 2017
- Volume: 17
- ISBN: 1472-6831
Abstract: Collaboration between dental practitioners and non-dental primary care providers has the potential to improve oral health care for people in rural and remote communities, where access to oral health services is limited. However, there is limited research on collaboration between these professional disciplines. The purpose of this paper was to explore the relationships between dental practitioners and non-dental primary care providers from rural and remote areas of Queensland and to identify strategies that could improve collaboration between these disciplines from the perspective of dental participants.
- Urls: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-017-0389-y
- Keywords: Collaboration, Dental practitioners, Interprofessional relationships, Primary care providers, Oral health, Rural and remote health