‘Us and them’: A realist interview study exploring how and why health system factors influence dentists’ participation in state funded, contracted primary dental care for low-income populations in Ireland

• Paul Leavy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: leavypa@tcd.ie

  ¶¤ Current address: School of Dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 18, Ireland

  Affiliation Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-3249

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• Blánaid Daly,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Dental Science, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

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• John Ford,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Sara Burke

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

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