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- Title
Increasing Medicaid Child Health Screenings: The Effectiveness of Mailed Pamphlets, Phone Calls, and Home Visits.
- Authors
Selby-Harrington, Maija; Sorenson, James R.; Quade, Dana; Stearns, Sally C.; Tesh, Anita S.; Donat, Patricia L. N.
- Abstract
Objectives. Dental services the use by two cohorts under the universal dental plan for the elderly in Alberta, Canada, was examined. Methods. Two birth cohorts 65 to 69 years old at entry who used the plan from 1978 to 1979 (n = 17816). or from 1985 to 1985 (n = 27 474) wore analyzed over 6 successive years for differences in dental services use and costs. Results. The 1985/86 cohort received 24% more visits per patient than the 1978/79 cohort. Their inflation-adjusted expenditures increased by 19% mainly as result of increases in denturists' expenditures (33%) (dentists' expenditures increased just 4% because of lower plan for increases). The 1985/86 cohort received relatively many more periodontal and fewer denture services. Annual attendance over 6 consecutive years was high, especially for the 1985/86 cohort and doritists' patients; 55% of the 1985/86 cohort who used dentists did so in 5 or all 6 years. Conclusions. Differences in plan expenditures per patient between the birth cohourts and dentists and denturists, along with the high continuity o care for dentists' patients have important implications for planning and administering dental plans for the elderly. The large expenditure decreases for removable dentures and the large increases for peridontal services to the 1985/86 cohort are noteworthy.
- Subjects
MEDICAID; FAMILIES; MEDICAL care costs; CHILD health services; MEDICAL screening
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1995, Vol 85, Issue 10, p1412
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.85.10.1412