Demonstration of high value care to improve oral health of a remote Indigenous community in Australia

Demonstration of high value care to improve oral health of a remote Indigenous community in Australia Journal Article

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

• Author(s): Kularatna, Sanjeewa, Lalloo, Ratilal, Kroon, Jeroen, Tadakamadla, Santosh K. K., Scuffham, Paul A., Johnson, Newell W.
• Published: 2020
• Volume: 18
• ISBN: 1477-7525

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Abstract: The oral health of Indigenous children in remote communities is much worse than other population groups in Australia. Providing and maintaining an oral health service is challenging due to the remoteness of communities, the associated high cost, and the low retention of clinical staff. An annual preventive intervention delivered by fly-in clinicians may be a more cost-effective way to manage this problem. In this analysis we estimate the cost-effectiveness of an annual professional intervention for the prevention of dental caries in children of a remote Indigenous community in Far North Queensland.

• Urls: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-020-01300-8
• Keywords: Cost effectiveness, Oral health, Indigenous, Utility, Cost utility, QALY, Caries