Dental Health Service In Indonesian Rural Area Using Dental Health Education Volunteer Payment Concept

Abstract

Public awareness to visit a dentist in Indonesia is still quite low, especially in the rural area. One of the reason is the assumption of costly dental care. The other reason is the distribution of dentists that have not been evenly distributed in Indonesia. The economic and the dentist distribution factors highly influence the frequency of people with low-income and in rural areas to have dental care. The infrequent visit leads to people’s inadequate health knowledge. Therefore, the prevalence of dental problems in Indonesia is still high. To overcome this issue, it is necessary to develop a concept of providing a dental treatment without having people paying the cash. Therefore, an alternative concept was being made based on the Indonesian condition and a successful method that has been implemented in other country rural areas. The aim of this study was to investigate Indonesian dental condition and make an alternative dental health service and payment concept that can be implemented in rural areas.This study was a literature review and the data was obtained from many sources.Based on the literature, the concept of payment of dental health service may be effective to be implemented in Indonesian rural areas.