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February 23, 2024Meandros Medical And Dental JournalOpen Access

Determination of Health Workforce Need Based on Workload: A Study of Dentist in Turkey

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FDFatih DururGKGamze KutluYAYasemin Akbulut

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Cross-sectional workforce analysis reveals maldistribution of dentists across public healthcare facilities, highlighting the need for workload-based staffing models.

Key Points

  • To determine dentist workforce requirements across public oral and dental health facilities in Turkey using the World Health Organization's Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) method.
  • Applied the WHO WISN methodology and standard formulas to assess staffing adequacy across public oral and dental health centers, dental hospitals, and state hospitals under the Turkish Ministry of Health.
  • Obtained dentist counts and service volume statistics from official Ministry of Health reports, while task durations and activity workloads were determined via expert interviews.
  • WISN ratios were calculated at 0.978 in oral and dental health centers, 0.945 in dental hospitals, 1.250 in state hospitals, and 1.014 across all evaluated institutions combined.
  • Overall dentist numbers exceeded workload-based requirements by 122 professionals nationally, but staff were unevenly distributed, showing a surplus of 344 dentists in lower-workload state hospitals alongside deficits in dedicated dental centers and hospitals.

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Durur et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa79724fb78d07897efffdfhttps://doi.org/10.4274/meandros.galenos.2022.67689
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