Title: Investigating the distribution of dentist in countries based on Gini coefficient
Abstract:
The health system of each country is responsible for the provision of services to ensure the health of covered people. One of the services that the health system is responsible to provide is dental services.The use of dental services is heavily distributed unequally among different social, ethnic, economic, and educational group.It is expected that the availability of the results obtained in this study to officials and policy-makers of the health sector will provide an effective step to improve the performance of this system.This is a descriptive-analytical study, which was conducted in 2021. the basic data about the number of dentists and the population of countries were obtained from databases of WHO and the United Nations (UN). The distribution of dentists was determined using calculations and analyses of the "Pareto curve", the "dentist-to-population ratio (DPR)", the Gini Coefficient "GC", and the "Lorenz curve". According to this analysis, it was tried to determine the group of countries with the largest number of dentists in the world.there are more than 2,500,000 dentists in the world. On average, 3.6 dentists per 10,000 people are distributed in the world. However, ratios of about 6.8 and 0.19 per 10,000 are respectively reported in countries located in very high and low HDI groups . In very high- and low-HDI countries, 20% and 12% of the world's population about 40% and about 1% of the world's dentists, respectively. The findings indicate that more than 80% of dentists are working in two groups of very high and high HDI countries .According to this study, the concentration of people in any job is higher in areas with better and higher welfare and facilities, and dentists are not exempt from this rule. Therefore, inequality in distribution can be prevented by creating better welfare in more disadvantaged areas, mandatory government plans, and, in principle, the government's planning and intervention in this issue
Biography:
At the age of 31, Shima Bordbar is a Ph.D. student in the field of health care management. She is working at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Management and Information. She has published and submitted more than 14 articles.
