Investigation Of Current Status Of Dental Medical Institutions And Dental Manpower Resources In Yunnan Province

[Objective] Through the survey of the natural conditions as the professional title, education, gender, age of dental health service personnel, the survey of the population and economic development, dental human resources (quantity, structure, distribution) and the basic situation of medical equipment in different regions with different social economic condition. To set up a more complete data system about dental health service capacity situation, to optimize the allocation of dental health service resource, dental medical education, dental equipment development. To provide basic information of dental health service, dental medical education, dental medical resources for scientific decision.[Methods] Based on literature reviewing, the cross-sectional study, the use of the census, using the designed questionnaires, the conventional statistic data and health services survey (mainly to the oral health organization), to collect the basic information of dental human resources (quantity, structure, distribution) and medical equipment of the regions with different social economic condition. The questionnaires were collected. Epidata3.0and SPSS11.5were used for analysis.[Results]1. There were currently1045dental medical institutions in Yunnan (2011), including396public medical institutions (37.90%) and629private medical institutions (60.19%). There was no statistical significance on business type and specialized subject type of oral medical institutions between minority regions and non-minority regions.2. There were2953dental chairs in dental medical institutions in Yunnan, including1420dental chairs (48.09%) in public medical institution and1489dental chairs (50.43%) in private medical institution. There were998dental chairs (33.8%) in minority regions and1955dental chairs (66.2%) in non-minority regions.3. There were3130dental service professionals in Yunnan Province, including2609dentists (83.35%).461nurses (14.73%) and60dental technicians (1.92%). The ratio between dentists and nurses was5.66:1.Each dentist serviced for17500patients. There were842doctors (32.27%) in minority regions, each dentist served20700people and there were1767doctors (67.73%) in non-minority regions, each dentist served for15900people.4. Among the2609dentists,40got senior title (1.53%),249associate senior title (9.54%).722doctor in charge (27.67%),912junior doctors (34.96%) and686below intermediate grade (26.3%). As for the educational background,22got doctor degrees (0.84%).95got master degrees (3.64%),753got bachelor degrees (28.86%).695got Junior college education (26.64%),1044below Junior college education (40.02%). As for the age of the dentists.871people blow30-year-old (33.39%),806people between31-40(30.89%).556ones between41-50(21.31%) and376people above51-year-old (14.41%).Of all the dentists,1359were males (52.09%), and1250were females (47.91%).Each dentist had1.13dental chairs. There was no statistical significance on age and statistical significance on title, degree and gender between minority regions and non-minority regions.[Conclusion]1. The private dental medical institutions of some regions in Yunnan have not fully developed.2. Dental manpower resources distribution in Yunnan was imbalance, mainly distributed in the relatively developed area.3. There was serious shortage of dental health personnel in Yunnan province.4. The quality of dental personnel in Yunnan was low. mainly in degree, professional title and so was the rate of the high-quality talents.5. The structure of the dental human resource was imbalance and the number of paramedics was insufficient seriously.6. There was obvious gap between non-minority regions and minority regions in terms of professional titles and education background.[Suggestions]1. Develop private dental medical institutions in less developed areas and enhance the supervision of private institutions throughout the whole province.2. Dental medical colleges should establish an effective educational system and adjustment mechanism to adapt to the market changes.3. Optimize the stomatological education and improve the quality of dental staff.4. Attach great importance to the reeducation of the dentists, constructing a lifelong dental education system.5. Strengthen the cultivation of dental assistant staff.6. Establish policy measures to attract and encourage qualified dental health personnel to work in local community clinics.