While in Belgium, one in two people has to give up going to the dentist regularly – in particular, for financial reasons –, according to Médecins du Monde, in 2018, and according to a Solidaris report, 43% of dentists were contracted , compared to 40% not under agreement.
By Irene Sulmont (st.)
Gbetween, age, social group, geographical accessibility… In Belgium, the criteria of inequalities are always more considerable as regards accessibility to dental care, underlined Solidaris, in a report of March 16th. If the agreement is one of the mechanisms to guarantee access to the healthcare system, in the country, dentists are poorly approved, and this proportion decreases over time.
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