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Dental nursing in Suriname: training and deployment
Author(s) -
Guile EE,
Hagens E,
Miranda JC
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.1981.45.3.tb01443.x
Subject(s) - economic shortage , software deployment , dental nurse , population , nursing , medicine , developing country , training (meteorology) , nursing shortage , nurse education , family medicine , environmental health , economic growth , geography , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , meteorology , computer science , economics , operating system
A program for training dental nurses in Suriname is described. The objective of the program is to alleviate the serious manpower shortage in a country with 16 dentists for a population of 400,000. The program is compared with others in the world to demonstrate unique characteristics. This program is one more indicator of the growing trend in developing countries toward using the dental nurse model for alleviating the high rate of oral diseases found in children and young adults.