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Costs of school‐based mouthrinsing in 14 demonstration programs in USA
Author(s) -
Doherty Neville J. G.,
Brunelle Janet A.,
Miller Ann J.,
Li ShouHua
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1984.tb01406.x
Subject(s) - medicine , total cost , demography , operations management , accounting , economics , sociology
The purpose of this study was to determine the economic costs of school‐based mouthrinsing in the demonstration programs. Costs for two complete years were expressed in 1978 dollars, and divided into explicit and implicit categories. Costs per participant were found to vary among programs (ranges of average total costs ‐ period I: $2.35‐$8.05, period II: $1.46‐$7.94), and a tendency for some average costs to increase with size was identified. That costs were higher than the conventionally reported $0.50‐$1.00 reflects 1) the organization of these federally funded programs and, 2) the use of an accounting method which describes the real economic costs of public programs.