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KMID : 0613620070270010081
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Health Social Welfare Review
2007 Volume.27 No. 1 p.81 ~ p.102
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The Supply and Demand for Dentists in Korea
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Shin Ho-Sung
Hong Su-Yeon
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Abstract
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The aim of study is to forecast dentist workforce by 2020 using the Bureau of Health Professional model (BHPr) in the conservative perspective. The use of this models helps to ensure some consistency with prior work and facilitates comparisons of the new forecasts with prior forecasts. The future dentist manpower balance was appraised by comparing the working dentist supply with demand (need) based on dental utilization pattern of reference year, 2002. Future dentist supply was forecasted by assessing the number of new entrants, dentist activity rate (85.9%), retire age (65 years old), dentist emigrant, and death based on rational inference of dental professional community. In order to calculate dentist needs, the pattern of dental utilization by patients was assumed as same as the results of 2002 Patients Survey. Annul working hour of a full time equivalent dentist was 1906 and non-practising dentist rate was 9%.
For dentist supply, the increasing rate of practicing dentists was higher than that of registered dentists and maximum available dentists. The number of practicing dentists in 2020 was forecasted as 24,856, which was increased by 44% compared with 2005 and the number of registered dentists was 33795, which was as high as 50%. Dentists shortage would disappeared by 2010 and after that, the supply would exceed demand and needs, and oversupply of dentists would be hugh in 2020. The results of analysis indicated that dentist supply policy immediately needed to be revised within near 5 year to prevent the future overcrowding of dental professionals.
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KEYWORD
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forecasting dentist workforce, BHPr model, dentist
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