Dental care risk management provided by Social Protection Institutions of Senegal


https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2015.564
Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015)
Submitted: 13 June 2015
Accepted: 16 June 2016
Published: 17 August 2015
social protection institutions, risks management, dental Care, Senegal
Abstract Views: 983
PDF: 532
HTML: 191
Publisher's note
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Authors

  • Cheikh Mouhamadou Mbacké Lo
    cheikhlo54@yahoo.fr
    Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
  • Mbathio Diop Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
  • Aida Kanouté Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
  • Massamba Diouf Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
  • Daouda Cissé Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
  • Daouda Faye Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
  • Yandé Baldé Public Practice, Dakar, Senegal.
Nowadays in Senegal, located in West Africa, social protection institutions are confronted with a substantially increased healthcare expenditure in general, and oral care in particular. The ability of the leadership to use techniques to contain the impact of risks they are facing determine their viability. The aim of our study was to analyze the risk management of dental care coverage by those institutions. The study was descriptive, extensive and focused on all active social protection Institutions in Senegal since 2005, at least. Our results showed that, in spite of the implementation of risk management mechanisms such as patient co-payment (97% of institutions), coverage ceiling (26%) and dentist council (15%), healthcare expenditure still growing. For the containment of oral care expenditure increase, it is important to raise awareness among social protection institutions for a greater use of existing risk management mechanisms.

Lo, C. M. M., Diop, M., Kanouté, A., Diouf, M., Cissé, D., Faye, D., & Baldé, Y. (2015). Dental care risk management provided by Social Protection Institutions of Senegal. Journal of Public Health in Africa, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2015.564

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Citations

Crossref
Scopus
Google Scholar
Europe PMC