Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Dental workforce
Missouri Oral Health Plan 2020-2025
Provides goals to improve oral health in Missouri, with a focus on access to prevention and emergency care, evidence-based care, developing the oral health workforce, identifying and addressing disparities, influencing policy, and increasing awareness and programming for oral health. Includes strategies specific to rural areas of Missouri.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Missouri Coalition for Oral Health, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Oral Health State Plan Workgroup
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Provides goals to improve oral health in Missouri, with a focus on access to prevention and emergency care, evidence-based care, developing the oral health workforce, identifying and addressing disparities, influencing policy, and increasing awareness and programming for oral health. Includes strategies specific to rural areas of Missouri.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Missouri Coalition for Oral Health, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Oral Health State Plan Workgroup
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Native Community Data Profiles
Provides interactive data profiles and maps of Native communities, including American Indian reservations, Alaska Native village statistical areas, Hawaiian home lands, and other Native geographies. Covers geographic characteristics, population, demographics, housing, transportation, internet, healthy food, and healthcare, including data on life expectancy, primary care physicians, dentists, hospitals, births, and deaths. Displays key infrastructure locations, including Indian Health Service facilities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Provides interactive data profiles and maps of Native communities, including American Indian reservations, Alaska Native village statistical areas, Hawaiian home lands, and other Native geographies. Covers geographic characteristics, population, demographics, housing, transportation, internet, healthy food, and healthcare, including data on life expectancy, primary care physicians, dentists, hospitals, births, and deaths. Displays key infrastructure locations, including Indian Health Service facilities.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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State of Georgia Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (DHPSA)
County-level map showing Georgia Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas by geographic area, low-income population group, and partial county.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Georgia State Office of Rural Health
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County-level map showing Georgia Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas by geographic area, low-income population group, and partial county.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Georgia State Office of Rural Health
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Tennessee Health Resource Shortage Areas (HRSA)
Provides county-level maps showing locations of Tennessee state-designated Obstetric, Pediatric, Mental Health, Dental, and Primary Care Health Resource Shortage Areas (HRSAs). Also includes a map of counties with the highest TENNCare enrollee to provider ratios.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Tennessee Department of Health
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Provides county-level maps showing locations of Tennessee state-designated Obstetric, Pediatric, Mental Health, Dental, and Primary Care Health Resource Shortage Areas (HRSAs). Also includes a map of counties with the highest TENNCare enrollee to provider ratios.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Tennessee Department of Health
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State of Georgia Health Care Workforce Dashboard
Provides maps of the county-by-county distribution of physicians, physician assistants, nurses, dentists, and dental hygienists in Georgia. Displays county and state workforce totals and availability as well as demographic information such as age and gender distribution of healthcare workers, and allows sorting of data by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan statistical area. Utilizes data from the Georgia Board of Healthcare Workforce and U.S. census.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Data Analytics Center (GDAC)
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Provides maps of the county-by-county distribution of physicians, physician assistants, nurses, dentists, and dental hygienists in Georgia. Displays county and state workforce totals and availability as well as demographic information such as age and gender distribution of healthcare workers, and allows sorting of data by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan statistical area. Utilizes data from the Georgia Board of Healthcare Workforce and U.S. census.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Data Analytics Center (GDAC)
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Dental Therapy Resources
Presents a series of reports, toolkits, articles, and other resources on dental therapy from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: W. K. Kellogg Foundation
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Presents a series of reports, toolkits, articles, and other resources on dental therapy from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: W. K. Kellogg Foundation
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Bureau of Health Workforce Field Strength and Students and Trainees Dashboards
Data tools and information related to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program participants. Allows users to access subsets of data by filtering on various program, location, shortage designation, and site attributes, including rural location. Offers insight into disciplines and school locations of future clinicians preparing to serve in shortage areas across the country.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Data tools and information related to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program participants. Allows users to access subsets of data by filtering on various program, location, shortage designation, and site attributes, including rural location. Offers insight into disciplines and school locations of future clinicians preparing to serve in shortage areas across the country.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Rural Oral Health ECHO
Details the adaptation of the Project ECHO telementoring model to address rural oral health disparities. Features expert presentations, participant Q&A and presentations, and expert feedback aimed at supporting oral health providers and developing the rural oral health workforce.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: American Institute of Dental Public Health
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Details the adaptation of the Project ECHO telementoring model to address rural oral health disparities. Features expert presentations, participant Q&A and presentations, and expert feedback aimed at supporting oral health providers and developing the rural oral health workforce.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: American Institute of Dental Public Health
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Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program: Academic Years 2021-2022
Describes activities of the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program (THCGMEP), in its efforts to bolster the primary care workforce through support for new and expanded primary care and dental residency programs, as well as improve distribution of the workforce through emphasis on underserved communities and populations. Features statistics on select program characteristics with breakdowns including total disadvantaged or rural residents and clinical training sites with breakdowns including rural location.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Describes activities of the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program (THCGMEP), in its efforts to bolster the primary care workforce through support for new and expanded primary care and dental residency programs, as well as improve distribution of the workforce through emphasis on underserved communities and populations. Features statistics on select program characteristics with breakdowns including total disadvantaged or rural residents and clinical training sites with breakdowns including rural location.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Predoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene Program: Academic Years 2015-2020
Describes activities of the Predoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene (PD) program as it enhances dental workforce education and training to prepare predoctoral dental students, dental hygiene students, and dental hygienists to meet the needs of vulnerable, underserved, or rural communities. Features statistics including PD training site settings and characteristics, with breakdowns by percentage in rural locations.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Describes activities of the Predoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene (PD) program as it enhances dental workforce education and training to prepare predoctoral dental students, dental hygiene students, and dental hygienists to meet the needs of vulnerable, underserved, or rural communities. Features statistics including PD training site settings and characteristics, with breakdowns by percentage in rural locations.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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