Health Education
- Federally Qualified Health Centers: http://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/
- Oral Health During Pregnancy & Early Childhood - Evidence Based Guidelines for Health Professionals: http://www.cdafoundation.org/library/docs/poh_guidelines.pdf
- Oral Health Resource Bulletin June 2008 Volume XX: Prepared by National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center - provides information about current materials such as collaborative practice acts, dental expenditures, dental sealants, fluoride varnish, Medicaid portability and reimbursement rates, perinatal oral health care, and evaluation programs. For your free printed copy or multiple copies, email ask@hrsa.gov or for an electronic copy, go to the MCHB website at http://www.mchoralhealth.org/publications.html .
- National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center: Resource materials on pregnancy and oral health are available at the following website.
http://www.mchoralhealth.org/materials/perinatal.html .
- National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center: Resource materials addressing school-based and school-linked oral health services for children and adolescents.
http://www.mchoralhealth.org/pdfs/schoolhealthfactsheet.pdf
- Latino Oral Health: A Research Agenda Toward Eliminating Oral Health Disparities
Latino Oral Health
- HDA / HeadStart: Envisioning Future Collaborations to Improve Oral Health Envisioning Future Collaborations to Improve Oral Health
- Symposium - Systemic Oral Health for the General Dentist: To request your free DVD copy of the 2006 symposium results, please contact the HDA headquarters at hispanicdental@hdassoc.org .
- The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) and the Children's Dental Health Project (CDHP) are collaborating on an oral health project, Awesome Smiles. Funded through a grant from HRSA/Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the project is part of a larger initiative entitled "Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health". http://www.cdhp.org/Index.asp?PA=3&XX=115&XX=102&XX=149&XX=81
- Framework for Hispanic Oral Health - 2008 Article from the Journal of Public Health Dentistry: Framework_for_Hispanic_Oral_health.pdf (117 KB)
- Latino oral health: A research agenda toward eliminating oral health disparities -- RAMOS-GOMEZ et al. 136 (9): 1231 -- The Journal of the American Dental Association: http://jada.ada.org/cgi/content/full/136/9/1231
- Centers for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov/
- ToothIQ - trustworthy dental information translatable into 24 languages:
http://www.toothiq.com/
- Healthy People Objectives: www.health.gov/healthypeople
- Medline Plus: Health Topics, Drug Information, Encyclopedia, Dictionary, News, Directories http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dentalhealth.html
- Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/sgr/sgrohweb/home.htm
- The Use of Salt Fluoridation to Prevent Dental Caries
Pan American Health Organization This book from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) shows how salt fluoridation has proven to be one of the most cost-effective public health interventions in history and shows countries how to implement programs of their own. In Spanish and English. For more information and how to order go to:
http://publications.paho.org/english/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=812
- Spanish Language Website from the National Institute on Aging - a variety of health topics for specifically adapted for Hispanic seniors at www.nia.nih.gov/Espanol.
- Office of Minority Health - Spanish language consumer health information, data and statistics: www.omhrc.gov/healthgap/espanol/index_esp4.htm
- Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health 2000 http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/oralhealth/
- Synopses of State and Territorial Dental Public Health Programs: http://www2.cdc.gov/nccdphp/doh/synopses/