Open AccessAssessment of the Economic and Health-Care Impact of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) on Public and Private Dental Surgeries in Spain: A Pilot Study
Author(s) -
Cintia Chamorro-Petronacci,
Carmen Martín CarrerasPresas,
Adriana Sanz-Marchena,
María A Rodríguez-Fernández,
José María Suárez-Quintanilla,
B Rivas-Mundiña,
Juan Antonio Suárez-Quintanilla,
Mario PérezSayáns
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of environmental research and public health/international journal of environmental research and public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1661-7827
pISSN - 1660-4601
DOI - 10.3390/ijerph17145139
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , personal protective equipment , observational study , medicine , public health , health care , dental care , family medicine , private sector , private practice , public sector , environmental health , medical emergency , nursing , political science , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic is an ongoing public health challenge, also for the dentistry community. The main objective of this paper was to determine the economic and health-care impact of COVID-19 on dentists in the Autonomous Region of Galicia (Spain).