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2/22/2018 |
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Report Recommends Strategies For Integrating Oral And Primary Healthcare |
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Report Recommends Strategies For Integrating Oral And Primary Healthcare from Dentistry Today In practice, policy, and education, oral healthcare and primary healthcare traditionally have been considered separately. To change that, a group of public health dentists has issued recommendations on improving the integration of these fields with a goal of influencing policymakers, clinicians, educators, and health researchers. Based at the UCLA School of Dentistry and the University of North Carolina, these researchers have found that additional work is needed to integrate primary care and oral health to provide more comprehensive and improved access to care. Also, the amount of time devoted to oral health in health-professional training programs remains low, and topics are limited. “One of the biggest takeaways from our analysis was that the integration of primary care and oral healthcare is still in its early stages, with little guidance and support from professional associations, governing bodies, and policymakers,” said Kathryn Atchison, DDS, MPH, professor of public health at the UCLA School of Dentistry and the Fielding School of Public Health. “We see this report as a blueprint for policymakers to better understand what is needed to best serve the public in the rapidly changing healthcare delivery system,” Atchison said. Read full article on Dentistry Today.
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