Project description
Affordable oral care and effective prevention
The impact of oral diseases and conditions like caries, dental fluorosis, tooth loss and periodontal disease is significant: they disproportionally affect vulnerable groups and are the third most expensive diseases to treat in the EU. In this context, the EU-funded DELIVER project will enhance access to affordable oral care through deliberative dialogue and action involving citizens, patients, providers, payers and policymakers. Forming collaborations with partners from Denmark, England, Germany, Malta, Portugal and Sweden, DELIVER will create a synergistic problem-solving ecosystem to convert deliberative dialogues into meaningful improvement of oral care quality. It will co-develop and co-produce new quality improvement approaches in three phases: situational analysis, community-based quality improvement for vulnerable groups, and quality-oriented commissioning of oral health services.
Objective
Oral diseases and conditions affect more than 3.5 billion people worldwide. They are the 3rd most expensive diseases to treat in the EU and disproportionally affect vulnerable groups. In deviation from the UN and WHO goal of Universal Health Coverage, many EU citizens do not have access to quality oral care without financial hardship. To this end, the DELIVER (DELiberative ImproVEment of oRal care quality) project aims to enhance the quality of oral care through deliberative dialogue and action involving citizens, patients, providers, payers and policymakers. DELIVER will create a synergistic problem-solving ecosystem to convert deliberative dialogues into meaningful improvement of oral care quality. DELIVER brings together top investigators from prestigious universities, civil society and patient organizations, health professionals, policymakers, and SME/industry to achieve a step change in collective problem solving. Given the comprehensiveness of the topic, DELIVER uses a targeted approach that is entirely focused on five major root-causes underlying the current limitations of oral care systems. Using a mixed-methods research approach, DELIVER will co-develop and co-produce new quality improvement approaches in three phases. The 1st phase involves situational analysis, consenting of core quality indicators, and development of a EU-wide monitoring framework. The 2nd phase involves in-depth analysis of select quality improvement approaches: (i) PROMs/PREMs-based quality improvement in dental practices; (ii) community-based quality improvement for vulnerable groups; (iii) quality-oriented commissioning of oral health services. The regulatory determinants of oral care quality improvement will be scrutinized. In the 3rd and final phase, the knowledge gained in the 1st and 2nd phases will be merged into the DELIVER Quality Toolkit with manuals and digital tools for concretely actionable and context-adaptive approaches for oral care quality improvement.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.1 - Health Main Programme
- HORIZON.2.1.6 - Health Care Systems
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
6525 GA Nijmegen
Netherlands