Descripción del proyecto
Tratar las enfermedades bucodentales antes de que sea demasiado tarde
La salud bucodental es fundamental para la salud general, la calidad de vida y el bienestar. La Organización Mundial de la Salud ha instado a que se adopte una estrategia integral para abordar las enfermedades bucodentales a través de la prevención y la atención en una etapa temprana, pero la mayoría de los europeos aún carecen de acceso a tratamientos asequibles y paquetes de cobertura de salud bucodental. Teniendo esto en cuenta, en el proyecto PRUDENT, financiado con fondos europeos, se diseñará y aplicará un marco completo, innovador y adaptable al contexto a fin de optimizar la financiación de los servicios de salud bucodental. Para ello, el equipo de PRUDENT empleará diferentes métodos y colaborará con diferentes instituciones (públicas, civiles y profesionales, entre otras) para investigar y definir prioridades, incentivos y recursos financieros necesarios para hacer que la política odontológica europea sea sostenible.
Objetivo
Oral diseases and conditions are the 3rd most expensive diseases to treat in the EU. They affect about half of the EU population. As highlighted in the 2021 WHO Oral Health Resolution, there are major challenges in the financing of oral health care: in deviation from the UN and WHO goal of Universal Health Coverage, many EU citizens do not have access to essential oral health care without financial hardship. This causes detrimental impacts for the individual citizen, while increasing costs and wasting resources on the macro level. Research-policy gaps and research-practice gaps keep triggering inertia and inaction instead of addressing the persistent, albeit largely preventable, burden of oral diseases. To this end, the PRUDENT (Prioritization, incentives and Resource use for sUstainable DENTistry) project aims to develop and implement an innovative and context-adaptive framework for optimized financing of oral care. PRUDENT brings together top investigators from prestigious universities, public authorities and policymakers, civil society and patient organizations, health insurers, and health professionals, to achieve a step change in collective problem solving. Given the comprehensiveness of the topic, PRUDENT uses a targeted approach that is entirely focused on four major root-causes underlying the current limitations of oral care financing. Using a mixed-methods research approach, PRUDENT will: (i) co-develop oral health system performance indicators and implement them in EU-wide monitoring framework; (ii) conduct real-world and lab experiments to identify improved oral care financing mechanisms; (iii) leverage regulatory learning, needs-adaptive resource planning and deliberative priority setting to enhance the improvement of oral care financing. The knowledge gained will be merged into the PRUDENT Financing Companion with policy briefs and decision aid tools for concretely actionable and context-adaptive improvement of oral care financing.
Ámbito científico
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.2.1 - Health Main Programme
- HORIZON.2.1.6 - Health Care Systems
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
6525 GA Nijmegen
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