Miroslav Vujičić
Biographic Data
| ID | 878430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miroslav Vujičić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miroslav |
| FAMILY NAME | Vujičić |
| SIGNATURE | VUJIČIĆ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Dental Association |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5535-0978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Benefit Design and Access to Dental Care Among Seniors With Medicare Advantage Dental Benefits
This study found that restrictive characteristics of Medicare Advantage dental plans are associated with greater unmet dental need and financial barriers to care. Results of this study suggest that increasing annual plan maximums or eliminating them entirely from benefit plans could decrease unmet dental need and increase dental care utilization
Sustainable Tourism, Culture and Heritage Promotion
Inequalities in oral health
Our exploratory analysis shows the disproportionate economic burden of caries in the most deprived groups and highlights the significant opportunity to reduce direct costs via levelling-up preventive measures. The healthcare burden stems from a higher baseline caries experience and greater annual progression rates in the most deprived. Therefore, preventive measures should be start early, with a focus on lowering early childhood caries and contin…
Time for Dental Care to Be Considered Essential in US Health Care Policy
Training, service delivery, and financing are done separately in dentistry and general health care, which has influenced reimbursement structures, access to services, and outcomes. This article considers how medical and dental separation exacerbates health inequity and canvasses data demonstrating that oral health and dental services are the least affordable health services. This article also proposes how dental and general medical care coverage …
The 2021 report on oral health in America
In the two decades between Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General and Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges much good happened but intractable challenges persist. Inequity in oral health status, utilization, and access to care continue to negatively affect the health and economic wellbeing of Americans and their families, local, state, and federal health care systems, and American society overall. To move the nation for…
Predictors of Changes in Travel Behavior during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigates travel behavior and psychosocial factors that influence it during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a cross-sectional study, using an online survey, we examined changes in travel behavior and preferences after lifting travel restrictions, and how these changes were influenced by exposure to COVID-19, COVID-19 travel-related risk and severity, personality, fear of travel, coping, and self-efficacy appraisals in the Romanian populat…
Application of the analytic hierarchy process in the selection of traditional food criteria in Vojvodina (Serbia)
Vojvodina Province (Northern Serbia) represents a multicultural area inhabited by around thirty nations and national or ethnic groups with their authentic tradition and culture. The gastronomy of Vojvodina has been forming as a reflection of geographic characteristics-natural conditions and social events in this area. The life numerous nations share on this fertile soil of Vojvodina has initiated mutual impact of various customs, which contribute…
Advancing oral health policy through persuasive messaging and effective research measures
Oral health is often excluded from broad health policy discussions, addressed only in a policy silo. There is a paucity of research to guide policymaking as it relates to oral health. In response, AcademyHealth's Oral Health Interest Group organized a meeting during the 2019 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting to promote transdisciplinary dialog on the current state of oral health policy and the steps necessary to improve the oral health of Ame…
The impact of out-of-pocket payments for dental care on household finances in low and middle income countries
Households with recent dental care spending were more likely to use a large portion of their disposable income and fall below the poverty line. Policy makers ought to consider including dental care as part of universal health care and advocate for the inclusion of dental care coverage in health insurance packages
Geographic access to dental care varies in Missouri and Wisconsin
The Health Resources and Services Administration, which designates dental health professional shortage areas, relies on administrative boundaries to calculate population to dental provider ratios. These boundaries may not reflect actual or "real-time" dental care markets. The methods employed in this paper may give policymakers a template to better determine geographic dentist shortage areas
The impact of the affordable care act's Medicaid expansion on dental care use through 2016
In Medicaid expansion states with adult dental benefits, evidence suggests that low-income adults have greater access to dental care
The Effect of Chairside Chronic Disease Screenings by Oral Health Professionals on Health Care Costs
Objectives. We estimated short-term health care cost savings that would result from oral health professionals performing chronic disease screenings. Methods. We used population data, estimates of chronic disease prevalence, and rates of medication adherence from the literature to estimate cost savings that would result from screening individuals aged 40 years and older who have seen a dentist but not a physician in the last 12 months. We estimate…
The Effect of the Affordable Care Act’s Expanded Coverage Policy on Access to Dental Care
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act included a dependent coverage policy that extends parents' or guardians' health insurance to adults aged 19-25. This policy does not apply directly to private dental benefits. However, for various reasons it could still have an indirect "spillover" effect if employers voluntarily expand dental coverage in conjunction with medical coverage. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of the Affordable Care Act's dependent c…
An analysis of Gavi, the Global Fund and World Bank support for human resources for health in developing countries
Shortages, geographic imbalances and poor performance of health workers pose major challenges for improving health service delivery in developing countries. In response, multilateral agencies have increasingly recognized the need to invest in human resources for health (HRH) to assist countries in achieving their health system goals. In this paper we analyse the HRH-related activities of three agencies: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immuni…
Health workforce skill mix and task shifting in low income countries
BACKGROUND: Health workforce needs-based shortages and skill mix imbalances are significant health workforce challenges. Task shifting, defined as delegating tasks to existing or new cadres with either less training or narrowly tailored training, is a potential strategy to address these challenges. This study uses an economics perspective to review the skill mix literature to determine its strength of the evidence, identify gaps in the evidence, …
Physician shortages in rural Vietnam
An analysis of Gavi, the Global Fund and World Bank support for human resources for health in developing countries
Shortages, geographic imbalances and poor performance of health workers pose major challenges for improving health service delivery in developing countries. In response, multilateral agencies have increasingly recognized the need to invest in human resources for health (HRH) to assist countries in achieving their health system goals. In this paper we analyse the HRH-related activities of three agencies: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immuni…
Physician shortages in rural Vietnam
Application of the analytic hierarchy process in the selection of traditional food criteria in Vojvodina (Serbia)
Vojvodina Province (Northern Serbia) represents a multicultural area inhabited by around thirty nations and national or ethnic groups with their authentic tradition and culture. The gastronomy of Vojvodina has been forming as a reflection of geographic characteristics-natural conditions and social events in this area. The life numerous nations share on this fertile soil of Vojvodina has initiated mutual impact of various customs, which contribute…
The Effect of Chairside Chronic Disease Screenings by Oral Health Professionals on Health Care Costs
Objectives. We estimated short-term health care cost savings that would result from oral health professionals performing chronic disease screenings. Methods. We used population data, estimates of chronic disease prevalence, and rates of medication adherence from the literature to estimate cost savings that would result from screening individuals aged 40 years and older who have seen a dentist but not a physician in the last 12 months. We estimate…
Health workforce skill mix and task shifting in low income countries
BACKGROUND: Health workforce needs-based shortages and skill mix imbalances are significant health workforce challenges. Task shifting, defined as delegating tasks to existing or new cadres with either less training or narrowly tailored training, is a potential strategy to address these challenges. This study uses an economics perspective to review the skill mix literature to determine its strength of the evidence, identify gaps in the evidence, …
Physician shortages in rural Vietnam
An analysis of Gavi, the Global Fund and World Bank support for human resources for health in developing countries
Shortages, geographic imbalances and poor performance of health workers pose major challenges for improving health service delivery in developing countries. In response, multilateral agencies have increasingly recognized the need to invest in human resources for health (HRH) to assist countries in achieving their health system goals. In this paper we analyse the HRH-related activities of three agencies: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immuni…
The Effect of Chairside Chronic Disease Screenings by Oral Health Professionals on Health Care Costs
Objectives. We estimated short-term health care cost savings that would result from oral health professionals performing chronic disease screenings. Methods. We used population data, estimates of chronic disease prevalence, and rates of medication adherence from the literature to estimate cost savings that would result from screening individuals aged 40 years and older who have seen a dentist but not a physician in the last 12 months. We estimate…
The Effect of the Affordable Care Act’s Expanded Coverage Policy on Access to Dental Care
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act included a dependent coverage policy that extends parents' or guardians' health insurance to adults aged 19-25. This policy does not apply directly to private dental benefits. However, for various reasons it could still have an indirect "spillover" effect if employers voluntarily expand dental coverage in conjunction with medical coverage. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of the Affordable Care Act's dependent c…
The impact of out-of-pocket payments for dental care on household finances in low and middle income countries
Households with recent dental care spending were more likely to use a large portion of their disposable income and fall below the poverty line. Policy makers ought to consider including dental care as part of universal health care and advocate for the inclusion of dental care coverage in health insurance packages
Geographic access to dental care varies in Missouri and Wisconsin
The Health Resources and Services Administration, which designates dental health professional shortage areas, relies on administrative boundaries to calculate population to dental provider ratios. These boundaries may not reflect actual or "real-time" dental care markets. The methods employed in this paper may give policymakers a template to better determine geographic dentist shortage areas
The impact of the affordable care act's Medicaid expansion on dental care use through 2016
In Medicaid expansion states with adult dental benefits, evidence suggests that low-income adults have greater access to dental care
Advancing oral health policy through persuasive messaging and effective research measures
Oral health is often excluded from broad health policy discussions, addressed only in a policy silo. There is a paucity of research to guide policymaking as it relates to oral health. In response, AcademyHealth's Oral Health Interest Group organized a meeting during the 2019 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting to promote transdisciplinary dialog on the current state of oral health policy and the steps necessary to improve the oral health of Ame…
Predictors of Changes in Travel Behavior during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigates travel behavior and psychosocial factors that influence it during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a cross-sectional study, using an online survey, we examined changes in travel behavior and preferences after lifting travel restrictions, and how these changes were influenced by exposure to COVID-19, COVID-19 travel-related risk and severity, personality, fear of travel, coping, and self-efficacy appraisals in the Romanian populat…
Application of the analytic hierarchy process in the selection of traditional food criteria in Vojvodina (Serbia)
Vojvodina Province (Northern Serbia) represents a multicultural area inhabited by around thirty nations and national or ethnic groups with their authentic tradition and culture. The gastronomy of Vojvodina has been forming as a reflection of geographic characteristics-natural conditions and social events in this area. The life numerous nations share on this fertile soil of Vojvodina has initiated mutual impact of various customs, which contribute…
Time for Dental Care to Be Considered Essential in US Health Care Policy
Training, service delivery, and financing are done separately in dentistry and general health care, which has influenced reimbursement structures, access to services, and outcomes. This article considers how medical and dental separation exacerbates health inequity and canvasses data demonstrating that oral health and dental services are the least affordable health services. This article also proposes how dental and general medical care coverage …
The 2021 report on oral health in America
In the two decades between Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General and Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges much good happened but intractable challenges persist. Inequity in oral health status, utilization, and access to care continue to negatively affect the health and economic wellbeing of Americans and their families, local, state, and federal health care systems, and American society overall. To move the nation for…
Sustainable Tourism, Culture and Heritage Promotion
Inequalities in oral health
Our exploratory analysis shows the disproportionate economic burden of caries in the most deprived groups and highlights the significant opportunity to reduce direct costs via levelling-up preventive measures. The healthcare burden stems from a higher baseline caries experience and greater annual progression rates in the most deprived. Therefore, preventive measures should be start early, with a focus on lowering early childhood caries and contin…
Benefit Design and Access to Dental Care Among Seniors With Medicare Advantage Dental Benefits
This study found that restrictive characteristics of Medicare Advantage dental plans are associated with greater unmet dental need and financial barriers to care. Results of this study suggest that increasing annual plan maximums or eliminating them entirely from benefit plans could decrease unmet dental need and increase dental care utilization
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