Addressing disparities in children's oral health: a dental-medical partnership to train family practice residents.
J Dent Educ
; 67(8): 886-95, 2003 Aug.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12959162
ABSTRACT
Providing oral health care to rural populations in the United States is a major challenge. Lack of community water fluoridation, dental workforce shortages, and geographical barriers all aggravate oral health and access problems in the largely rural Northwest. Children from low-income and minority families and children with special needs are at particular risk. Family-centered disease prevention strategies are needed to reduce oral health disparities in children. Oral health promotion can take place in a primary care practitioner's office, but medical providers often lack relevant training. In this project, dental, medical, and educational faculty at a large academic health center partnered to provide evidence-based, culturally competent pediatric oral health training to family medicine residents in five community-based training programs. The curriculum targets children birth to five years and covers dental development, the caries process, dental emergencies, and oral health in children with special needs. Outcome measures include changes in knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy; preliminary results are presented. The program also partnered with local dentists to ensure a referral network for children with identified disease at the family medicine training sites. Pediatric dentistry residents assisted in didactic and hands-on training of family medicine residents. Future topics for oral health training of family physicians are suggested.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Saúde Bucal
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Assistência Odontológica para Crianças
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Educação em Odontologia
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Medicina de Família e Comunidade
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Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde
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Internato e Residência
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Equity_inequality
Limite:
Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
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Newborn
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Dent Educ
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos