SUBSCRIBE TO OUR BLOGMobile Dental Vans: Planning Considerations and Productivity for the Next Generation
According to the United Nations the world population is expected to reach from 7.5 billion (2016) to 11.2 billion in 2100. The global community will have to evolve to provide the basic dental and medical services to 3.7 billion more people by 2050. It will be a challenging undertaking considering the dismal state of the current global health care deficiencies. The fixed clinics in conjunction with the Mobile Dental and Medical Clinics may be a solution to fulfill the requirement of the multitude in 2100. The innovative technologies like Uber to Drone may be on the horizon to expand the health care service in the future.
Mobile medical and dental clinics will flourish in the future global market in conjunction with fixed conventional dental clinics.
According to a new United Nation DESA (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) report “World Population Prospects: The 2015 revision”, published in July 2015 projected that the current population of 7.5 billion is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100. During 2015-2050, half of the world’s population growth is expected to be concentrated in nine countries: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America, Indonesia and Uganda, listed according to the size of their contribution to the total growth. The population of Nigeria is projected to surpass that of the United States by about 2050, at which point it would replace the United States of America as the third largest country in the world to join India and China. Australia’s population is projected to increase between 36.8 million and 48.3 million in 2061, and reach between 42.4 million and 70.1 million in 2101.
This report is intended to prognosticate the dental and medical providers and services that will be required to meet the predicted population trend between now (2016) and 2050. The conventional dental, medical and hospital establishments will have to innovate to meet those demands attributable to population surge globally. The conventional fixed clinics in conjunction with mobile clinics will be required to reach the patients to service them by implementing transportable containers, trailers, mobile coaches, semi-type trailers. These are also great venues for primary care, psychology, and other future medical needs.
The future technological events may offer new systems, processes or flying gadgets like drones to provide dental and medical services to the patients in the rural or city slums globally. But in the meantime the conventional fixed clinics in conjunction with Uber style mobile van clinics deserve research as a viable plan for the future health services.
The issues encountered in planning, implementation, ongoing costs and productivity are different for fixed clinics and mobile clinics, but both must be a perfect complement to an optimal health service success. As explained in the Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization, health is defined as a “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Mobile Dental Van can have one operatory, but the two operatory van is the optimum method to support such a program: This type of operation can provide diagnostic, preventive, treatment procedures and oral education. But all such programs require external funding to remain financially solvent. Implementation and management of mobile dental vans program is complicated, but they provide an innovative solution to bringing clinical care to underserved children and when operated in conjunction with schools, nursing homes etc. can eliminate transportation problems and missed appointments.
Dental Clinic Cost Comparison for Conventional 3 Operatory Fixed & 2 Operatory Mobile Clinics
- Total start up cost for the Conventional Fixed Dental 3 operatory clinic estimate is from $500,000.00 to $600,000.00. Mobile Dental Clinic start up cost for a 2 operatory mobile clinic estimate is from $350,000.00 to $450,000.00.
- Total Annual operating cost for a 3 Operatory Fixed Dental Clinic estimate is from $275,000.00 to $325,000.00. 2 operatory Mobile Dental Clinic Total Annual Operating cost estimate is from $150,000.00 to $200,000.00.
- Total first year cost estimate for a 3 Operatory Fixed Clinic is from $850,000.00 to $900,000.00. 2 operatory Mobile Dental Clinic Total First Year cost estimate is from $550,000.00 to $650,000.00.
Note that the Mobile Dental Clinic includes all of the dental equipment same as the fixed dental clinic. The cost information listed is for frame of reference.
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