Abstract
Empirical evidence of oral health care and dental service delivery systems for people with disabilities
in Thailand is needed. An important question for the national health policy-makers is how to improve
oral health promotion for disabled patients in healthcare priority-setting. The objective of this paper was
synthesis of common wisdom regarding financial management of the oral health promotion system for
the disabled people in Thailand. This study systematically reviewed the literature in PubMed and MEDLINE
databases and the unpublished-literature that reported data in Thailand, Japan, the United States of America,
Canada, and the Commonwealth of Australia. The relevance of 82 retrieved articles was reviewed for each
country based on its current oral-health insurance systems, cost-benefits, and healthcare financial management.
Thirty-seven stakeholders commented on these findings and made suggestions by group panel.
This evidence supports the need to develop oral-healthcare policies to support dental care service, especially
oral health promotion and prevention, and improvement of equity and quality of the disabled access
to dental primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare delivery systems in Thailand.
