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Resources by Topic: Oral health

Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant - Palau: FY 2024 Application/FY 2022 Annual Report
Highlights Palau's maternal and child health programs. Includes topics related to reducing infant mortality, improving oral and behavioral health, improving access, and COVID-19, among others.
Date: 09/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant - Northern Mariana Islands: FY 2024 Application/FY 2022 Annual Report
Highlights the Northern Mariana Islands' maternal and child health programs. Includes topics related to reducing infant mortality, improving oral and behavioral health, improving access, and COVID-19, among others.
Date: 09/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant - American Samoa: FY 2024 Application/FY 2022 Annual Report
Highlights American Samoa's maternal and child health programs. Includes topics related to reducing infant mortality, improving oral and behavioral health, improving access, and COVID-19, among others.
Date: 09/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant - Guam: FY 2024 Application/FY 2022 Annual Report
Highlights Guam's maternal and child health programs. Includes topics related to reducing infant mortality, improving oral and behavioral health, improving access, and COVID-19, among others.
Date: 09/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant - Puerto Rico: FY 2024 Application/FY 2022 Annual Report
Highlights Puerto Rico's maternal and child health programs. Includes topics related to reducing infant mortality, improving oral and behavioral health, and improving access, among others.
Date: 09/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Hunger Pains: How Food Insecurity Affects Oral Health
Report discusses the ways food insecurity affects oral health outcomes. Highlights populations suffering from food insecurity and compares rural and urban populations. Details the oral health disparities that correlate with food insecurity.
Author(s): Paige Martin, Morgan Santoro, Lisa J. Heaton, et al.
Date: 09/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: CareQuest Institute for Oral Health
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South Dakota Health Professional Shortage Areas: Dental Healthcare
County-level South Dakota map showing geographic, population, and automatic Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).
Date: 09/2023
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: South Dakota Office of Rural Health
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Oral Health Among Medicare Beneficiaries in Nursing Homes
Evaluated oral health among 2,355,366 Medicare beneficiaries living in nursing homes. Highlights characteristics associated with specific types of dental issues including age, gender, race and ethnicity, rurality, and more.
Author(s): Steffany Chamut, Carla Shoff, Kristiana Yao, Lee A. Fleisher, Natalia I. Chalmers
Citation: JAMA Network Open, 6(9)
Date: 09/2023
Type: Document
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Kentucky Dental Workforce Report 2023
Provides an overview of dental workforce in Kentucky using 2023 licensure data. Reports the characteristics of dentists and their geographic distribution, including comparisons of rural, urban, Appalachian, and Delta counties. Also provides a table of dentist to population ratios for Kentucky counties, and highlights counties considered shortage areas.
Date: 08/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health
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Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry (ACTPCMD) Meeting Minutes, August 17, 2023
Summarizes the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry (ACTPCMD) meeting held August 17, 2023. Features updates from the Bureau of Health Workforce on programs to address healthcare workforce shortages and Title VII funding opportunities planned for 2024, including the Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE) - Physician Assistant Rural Training in Mental and Behavioral Health and the Rural Community Program Directors programs.
Additional links: Presentations
Date: 08/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
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