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American Dental Association. 2025. Medicaid provider resource: Strategies to reduce missed appointments. Chicago, IL: American Dental Association, 1 p.

Annotation: This brief, which is intended for dentists who participate in Medicaid, outlines strategies to consider for maximizing practice productivity, reducing patient cancellations and missed appointments, and reducing administrative burdens. Strategies discussed include taking advantage of patient-support resources, incorporating scheduling best practices, using staff and expanded workforce models, and behaving compassionately toward patients experiencing challenges with keeping appointments.

Keywords: Communication, Dentists, Family support services, Low income groups, Medicaid, Oral health, Parent support services, Productivity

National Center for Health Workforce Analysis. 2015. National and state-level projections of dentists and dental hygienists in the U.S., 2012-2025. Rockville, MD: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, 16 pp.

Annotation: This brief presents national- and state-level estimates of supply and demand for dentists and dental hygienists at baseline in 2012 and for 2025 using the Health Resources and Services Administration's Health Work Force Simulation Model. Both supply and demand projections are reported as full time equivalents. Contents include background, results, limitations, and conclusions. Topics include changes in oral health care delivery and in health systems, dentist shortages, the evolving role of the dental hygienist, and the productivity of the existing oral health work force.

Keywords: Dental hygienists, Dentists, Health care delivery, Health care reform, Oral health, Productivity, Service delivery systems, Statistical data, Trends, Work force

Clay K, Troesken W, Haines MR. 2010. Lead, mortality, and productivity. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 62 pp. (NBER working paper series no. 16480)

Annotation: This paper examines the effect of water-borne lead exposure on infant mortality in American cities between 1900 and 1920. The authors compare the type of pipes used (lead, iron, or concrete) in cities and the acidity or softness of the water running through them with levels of infant mortality. The paper provides an overview of lead and infant health based on a review of the literature; discusses the choice in the selection of pipes among public officials; and explains the sources for data used in the study. The authors conclude that cities that used lead pipes in combination with water that promoted lead leaching not only had higher rates of infant mortality, but that the adverse effects may have impacted worker productivity as well. Tables indicate trends in infant mortality, non-infant mortality and worker productivity based on the presence of lead pipes combined with water type. Other tables compare data across cities.

Keywords: Data, History, Infant mortality, Lead, Productivity, Research, Water safety

Pew Children's Dental Campaign. 2010. It takes a team: How new dental providers can benefit patients and practices. Washington, DC: Pew Center on the States, 4 items.

Annotation: This report examines the potential effects of dental therapists and hygienist-therapists on the productivity and profits of private dental practices. Contents include scenarios of how types of health professionals could change client capacity and revenues of private practices. Contents include scenarios of how types of health professionals could change client capacity and revenues of private practices. Implications for policy are also discussed. The economic tool – the Productivity and Profit Calculator – used to create the scenarios is provided separately to help advocates, dentists, and policymakers assess the unique variables from their states or communities to better understand the potential effects of adding allied health professionals to the oral health team.

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Keywords: Allied health personnel, Dental hygienists, Dentists, Economics, Independent practice associates, Oral health, Organizational change, Productivity, Work force

U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau. 1995. Maternal and Child Health Bureau Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics Fellowship Training Programs: Evaluation summary. [No place: No publisher], 136 pp.

Annotation: This summary report describes first eight years of the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau training programs in Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics (BDP), which started in 1986 with grants to eleven medical school and hospitals. The report includes chapters about the following: components of the educational program; types of training received by medical students and pediatric residents; evaluations of the program by current fellows; professional accomplishments of former fellows; academic productivity of program faculty; postgraduate education; new programs initiated; and the impact of fellowship programs. The concluding summary is an argument for continuation of the program as an cost-effective investment in our nation's future. Appendices include: BDP Training Program components; fellowship evaluation forms summary; and a compilation of publications by program faculty and fellows. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Behavioral medicine, Curricula, Developmental pediatrics, Federal grants, Fellowships, Internship and residency, MCH training programs, Medical education, Medical students, Pediatricians, Pediatrics, Productivity, Professional education, Professional training, Program evaluation, Publications, Research methodology, Statistics

Osborne D, Gaebler T. 1992. Reinventing government: How the entrepreneurial spirit is transforming the public sector. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing, 405 pp.

Annotation: This book has two purposes: to look at governments that have begun to make changes toward a world of a postindustrial, knowledge-based global economy, and to provide a map to others who want to make similar changes. It focuses on ten principles on which entrepreneurial governments seem to be based: facilitation, community ownership, competition, mission orientation, results orientation, customer needs, public enterprise, prevention, decentralization, and market orientation.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Federal agencies, Federal government, Models, Productivity

International Labour Organisation. 1963. Hunger and social policy. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Organisation, 66 pp. (Freedom From Hunger Campaign; basic study no. 14)

Annotation: This report focuses on international hunger and social policy. The following topics are addressed: (1) the nature and scope of the problem of hunger, (2) ways and means, (3) economic development and social change, (4) social progress, (5) problems of rural areas, (6) levels of income and nutrition, (7) agrarian reform, (8) International Labour Organisation's rural development program, (10) employment problems, (11) international action on the employment front, (12) the importance of manpower assessment, (13) wages, (14) vocational training and productivity, (15) International Institute for Labour Studies, (16) international action on the training front, (17) housing, (18) small industries and cooperation, (19) living and working conditions, and (20) the Andean Indian Programme. A conclusion is also included.

Keywords: Employment, Hunger, International health, Nutrition, Poverty, Productivity, Programs, Rural population, Social policy, Training, Vocational education