Leadership and Legacy: Oral Health Milestones in Maternal and Child Health Promotion and Prevention OHRC

1943

American Public Health Association, Oral Health Section logo
American Public Health Association logo. Reproduced with permission from the American Public Health Association.
  • American Public Health Association, Oral Health Section, established

Background

The Oral Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) was created to promote important oral health issues within APHA. The section is dedicated to the same priority issues as is APHA as a whole: improving access to care, eliminating health disparities, and rebuilding the public health infrastructure.

Impact

The section has sponsored numerous resolutions that support dental public health policies, programs, and practices. The section works to promote community water fluoridation; effective interventions for reducing racial and ethnic health disparities; evidence-based oral health care; reducing oral health complications for individuals with diabetes; domestic violence screening, identification, and referral by oral health professionals; wearing mouthguards to prevent oro-facial injury; dental sealant application; preventing the transmission of bloodborne pathogens; and other issues.

Source

American Public Health Association. Oral Health [website].

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