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Dental utilisation by young adults before and after subsidisation reform in Finland

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  • Sisko Arinen
  • Harri Sintonen
  • Gunnar Rosenqvist

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Dental care was never fully integrated into the welfare state in Finland, but in 1986 it was decided to improve access to both publicly and privately provided dental care by reducing the price paid by patients. Since this would have been rather expensive to do for the whole population, it was decided to introduce it gradually, starting with the young adult population (those under 21 already had free publicly provided dental care). The so-called “Subsidisation Reform” (SR) was based on the assumption that the seeking of care would increase, as would the amount of care actually provided, and this increase would be spread across both the public and the private sectors. This study investigates the short-term effects of this reform. The seeking of care did increase, but the amount of care actually provided decreased and the changes were not evenly spread between the two sectors. The reasons for these changes are explored, and some of the inherent difficulties in evaluating health care reforms are set out, since they are likely to be of wider significance than this particular reform in Finland.

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  • Sisko Arinen & Harri Sintonen & Gunnar Rosenqvist, 1996. "Dental utilisation by young adults before and after subsidisation reform in Finland," Working Papers 149chedp, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
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    1. Unto Häkkinen & Gunnar Rosenqvist & Seppo Aro, 1996. "Economic depression and the use of physician services in Finland," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 5(5), pages 421-434, September.

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