De economie van mondzorg: Kiezen voor doelmatige en eerlijke mondzorg

De Nederlandse mondzorg is een belangrijke sector. In de eerste plaats draagt mondzorg direct bij aan de gezondheid van burgers. Weinig zaken zijn belangrijker en waardevoller voor mensen dan hun gezondheid, waarvan mondgezondheid een wezenlijk onderdeel is. Daarnaast biedt de mondzorg aan veel mensen werk, zowel direct als indirect, en gaat er...

Meningen over mondzorg: een online-onderzoek onder NTVT-lezers [Opinions about oral care: an online questionnaire among readers of NTvT]

By means of a brief online questionnaire with 12 statements about the organisation, quality and impact of oral care in the Netherlands, the readers of the Netherlands Journal of Dentistry (NTVT) were asked to express their opinions on a number of important subjects concerning oral care in the Netherlands with respect to health economic matters....

Op naar mondgezondheidseconomie: Een agenda

Dit themanummer stond in het teken van gezondheidseconomie binnen de mondzorg. Het borgen van een goede, betaalbare en toegankelijke mondzorg voor alle Nederlanders, nu en in de toekomst, blijft een belangrijke uitdaging. De korte columns vanuit verschillende perspectieven onderstreepten dit.

Een economische evaluatie van 2 cariëspreventie strategieën vergeleken met standaardzorg

A cost-effectiveness evaluation was conducted with a randomised controlled clinical trial of caries prevention measures among 6-year-old children who were assigned to either a control group or 1 of 2 experimental groups (IPFA: 2 extra professionally-delivered fluoride applications per year, or NOCTP: a non-operative caries treatment programme,...

Value for Money: Economic Evaluation of Two Different Caries Prevention Programmes Compared with standard Care in a Randomized Controlled Trial

A cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted during a 3-year randomized controlled clinical trial in a general dental practice in the Netherlands in which 230 6-year-old children (± 3 months) were assigned to either regular dental care, an increased professional fluoride application (IPFA) programme or a non-operative caries treatment and...

Putting your money where your mouth is: Parents' valuationa of good oral health of their children

Burden of informal caregiving for stroke patients: Identification of caregivers at risk of adverse health effects

Background: We assessed the objective and subjective burden of caregiving for stroke patients and investigated which characteristics of the patient, the informal caregiver and the objective burden contribute most to subjective burden and to the condition of feeling substantially burdened. Methods: We studied a sample of 151 stroke survivors and...

Burden of caregiving: Evidence of objective burden, subjective burden, and quality of life impacts on informal caregivers of patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

What really matters: An inquiry into the relative importance of dimensions of informal caregiver burden

Objective: Prevailing measures of subjective caregiver burden either have no overall summary score or do not consider the relative importance caregivers attach to different dimensions of burden. Our aim was to assess which dimensions informal caregivers perceive as being important to their overall burden from care giving. Design: Cross-sectional...