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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Think Cultural Health. n.d.. Cultural competency program for oral health providers. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 3 courses.

Annotation: This program is intended for dentists, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental specialists, and other oral health professionals interested in learning about culturally and linguistically appropriate services. The program aims to provide professionals with the knowledge, skills, and awareness they need to provide high-quality oral health services to everyone, regardless of their cultural or linguistic background. The program also aims to support the implementation of National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care.

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Keywords: Diversity, Health care delivery, Health care disparities, Health equity, Oral health, Oral health equity, Professional education

Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Oral Health Coalition. n.d.. Wisconsin's roadmap to improving oral health 2020–2025. West Allis, WI: Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Oral Health Coalition, 13 pp.

Annotation: The goal of this oral health roadmap for Wisconsin is to reduce the prevalence of oral disease and disparities in oral health status among state residents. It is intended to be used as a guide for promoting access to high-quality oral health care. The plan discusses four strategic areas: infrastructure, prevention and health promotion, access to oral health care, and workforce.

Keywords: Access to oral health care, Health promotion, Oral health, Oral health equity, Prevention, State information, Wisconsin, Work force

Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy. 2025. From barriers to bridges: Redesigning New York's oral health workforce for equity and access. Albany, NY: Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy, 51 pp.

Annotation: This report focuses on the Future Oral Health Workforce project, which launched in 2024 with the goal of improving oral health equity and access to oral health care in the state. The project synthesized insights from statewide studies, expert consultations, and community convenings to develop recommendations for building a more equitable and effective oral health care system in New York. This report highlights challenges related to oral health care in the state and offers strategies for improving access to care and addressing the state’s persistent workforce shortages.

Keywords: Access to health care, Initiatives, New York, Oral health, Oral health equity, State information, State programs, Work force

Gammer L. 2025. Federal regulation of fluoride in drinking water. St. Paul, MN: Network for Public Health Law, 17 pp. (Oral health fact sheet)

Annotation: This report provides information about federal regulation of fluoride in community drinking water. It offers an overview of why fluoridating drinking water is important and discusses how doing so reduces oral health disparities. It explains federal, state, and local governments' role in fluoride regulation. It also discusses federal actions to combat the Environmental Protection Agency's potential prohibition against fluoridating drinking water and opportunities for state and local governments to respond.

Keywords: Dental caries, Federal government, Fluoride, Legislation, Local government, Oral health, Oral health equity, Prevention, State government

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. 2025. The collaborative effect: Transforming oral health in North Carolina. Boston, MA: CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, 24 pp. (Impact report)

Annotation: This report provides information on the Community Oral Health Transformation (COrHT) initiative, an effort to improve oral health equity and oral-health-care delivery across North Carolina. the Initiative sought to align community needs with person-centered, integrated care principles through cross-sector collaboration, advocacy, and systems transformation. The report discusses challenges to attaining optimal oral health for many people, provides COrHT background and selection criteria, and includes an impact assessment. A path forward is presented.

Keywords: Advocacy, Community health, Initiatives, North Carolina, Oral health, Oral health equity, Service delivery systems, State programs

National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center. 2024. Capacity inventory for integrating oral health care and primary care for pregnant women: Tool (rev. ed.). Washington, DC: National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, 15 pp.

Annotation: This tool was developed to assist states in efforts to improve their capacity to integrate oral health care and primary care for pregnant women. The purpose of the tool is to help state oral health program staff assess systems-level capacity factors and prioritize needs. Staff can use the tool to consider factors that facilitate integration of oral health care and primary care for pregnant women and to look for opportunities to improve integration. A companion brief with more information on the tool’s development is also available. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Oral health, Oral health equity, Pregnant women, Primary care, Service integration, State programs

Steward M, Howe G, Tran T. 2024. Emerging approaches in oral health care: Considerations for minimally invasive care in Medicaid. Hamilton, NJ: Center for Health Care Strategies, 18 pp. (Brief)

Annotation: This brief provides information on how minimally invasive care (MIC) can be used in conjunction with the integration of oral health care and medical care to improve oral health and overall health, as well as people’s experiences with receiving oral health care. The brief presents strategies for integrating oral health care and medical care to promote MIC, including cross-training oral health professionals, Medicaid billing and reimbursement, dental hygienists, dental therapists, community health workers, and teledentistry.

Keywords: Access to health care, Health care delivery, Low income groups, Medicaid, Oral health, Oral health equity, Reimbursement, Service integration

Oral Health Ohio and Carequest Institute for Oral Health. 2024. MORE care in Ohio: Medical oral expanded care. Boston, MA: CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, 2 pp.

Annotation: This brief provides information about MORE Care, a program in Ohio conducted by Health Ohio and CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, in partnership, to improve children’s oral health and reduce costly, invasive dental procedures by advancing value-based care and integrating oral health care into primary care. The brief describes how the program works, offers information about Health Ohio and the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, and presents an example of how MORE Care is being implemented.

Keywords: Costs, Health care delivery, Low income groups, Ohio, Oral health, Oral health equity, Prevention, Primary care, Service integration, State programs

Barzel R, Holt K. 2024. A way with words: Tips for writing easy-to-understand oral health materials. Washington, DC: National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, 2 pp.

Annotation: This handout for health professionals provides tips on how to write oral health materials that are easy for people to understand. It includes ideas about words to use and not to use, tone, voice (active vs. passive), and layout. Effectively using headings and lists is also discussed, along with the best way to write sentences and paragraphs to make the text simple and clear. How to incorporate technical words, when necessary, is explained. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Communication, Health literacy, Linguistic competence:, Oral health, Oral health equity

Institute for Exceptional Care, Action to Build Clinical Confidence and Culture (ABC3) Coalition. 2024. A national roadmap for disability-inclusive healthcare: A plan for clinicians to learn how to give the best healthcare possible to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Washington, DC: Institute for Exceptional Care, 56 pp.

Annotation: This roadmap presents goals and action steps to promote the ability of health professionals working in the areas of primary care, mental health, behavioral health, emergency care, sexual/reproductive health, and dentistry to serve people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) equitably and effectively. Topics include the need for a national strategy to improve health care for people with IDD, initiatives to improve training for health professionals, building the roadmap, building consensus, priority action steps, and accrediting bodies for health care facilities.

Keywords: Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Health equity, Oral health, Oral health equity, Special health care needs, Training

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. 2024. CMS cross cutting issue: Oral health. Baltimore, MD: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 3 pp.

Annotation: This report provides information about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Oral Health Cross-Cutting Initiative (CCI), which works across the agency to enhance alignment of and focus on oral health in CMS programs and policies. CCI seeks to achieve equal access to oral health care, eliminate persistent oral health disparities, expand access to oral health services, foster collaborative engagement with stakeholders, and use data analytics and innovation to inform policy priorities. The report discusses key results and oral health analytics: data- and evidence-driven insights.

Keywords: Access to health care, Collaboration, Data, Medicaid, Medicare: Initiatives, Oral health, Oral health equity, Public policy

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. 2024. State of oral health equity in America 2024 survey: Key findings. Boston, MA: CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, 3 pp.

Annotation: This brief provides key findings from the State of Oral Health Equity in America 2024 Survey, a nationally representative survey of over 9,000 adults’ attitudes, experiences, and behaviors related to oral health. Information is included about dental visits in the past year by home-ownership status, planned dental visits in the coming year by income level, emergency department visits for oral health care by educational attainment, having a dental home by health insurance status, self-rated oral health by sexual orientation, importance attached to cultural humility in oral health care by race, and importance attached to diversity in oral health care by income level.

Keywords: Behavior, Cultural competence, Educational attainment, Emergency medical services, Health equity, Health insurance, Income factors, Oral health, Oral health care, Sexual identity, Surveys

Watson K, Le L, Burns B, DeFrancis Sun B, Mayer R, Richards J. 2024. Preventive dental visit: What Works evidence accelerator--Summarizing effective strategies for MCH. Washington, DC: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Strengthen the Evidence for MCH Programs, 7 pp.

Annotation: This brief, which is part of the What Works Evidence Accelerators series, provides background information and a summary of effective strategies to advance the national performance measures on preventive dental visits for children and for pregnant women. The strategies support increasing the percentages of pregnant women and children who had a dental visit in the past year. The brief includes an overview of the issues; data; and information on oral health outcomes, disparities in outcomes, children and youth with special health care needs, and partnership and the role of Title V.

Keywords: Access to health care, Health care utilization, Oral health, Oral health equity, Partnership, Pregnant women, Prevention, Special health care needs, Title V programs

Santa Fe Group. [2023]. Advance health equity: An alignment and action summit--Summary report. New York, NY: Santa Fe Group, 21 pp.

Annotation: This report presents information from a summit convened to advance health equity by catalyzing aligned, multistate action. The summit focused on three strategic areas: expanded oral health insurance coverage, workforce development, and integration of oral health care and overall health care. The report provides background information and an overview of the summit, as well as a description of sessions.

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Keywords: Conference proceedings, Conferences, Health equity, Health insurance, Oral health, Service integration

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. 2023. American Indian and Alaska Native communities face a disproportionate burden of oral disease: Reversing inequities involves challenges and opportunities. Boston, MA: CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, 34 pp., exec. summ. (6 pp.). (White paper)

Annotation: This paper provides information on oral health disparities that American Indians and Alaska Natives experience. It discusses the causes of these disparities and presents possible solutions. Topics include historical and current sources of health inequities, information from the State of Oral Health Equity in America Survey, creating and expanding a representative oral health workforce, collaborating to conduct inclusive research, and making funding available that promotes oral health equity. A call to action is included.

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Keywords: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Collaboration, Diversity, Healthy equity, Oral health, Underserved communities

Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors. 2023. Policy statement: Social determinants of health and improving oral health equity. Reno, NV: Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, 11 pp.

Annotation: This policy statement provides information on social determinants of health (SDoH) and what can be done to improve oral health equity. It discusses the problem of health disparities and inequities and presents steps toward a solution, including identifying SDoH in a community, mapping available community resources and mobilizing them through partnerships, selecting approaches for action, and evaluating implementation and impact. A description of the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors’ support for strategies to address SDoH is included.

Keywords: Communities, Community health, Economic factors, Ethnic factors, Oral health, Oral health equity, Racial factors, Social factors

Wilson K. 2023. Adopting oral health integration to advance minimally-invasive care. Boston, MA: Community Catalyst, Dental Access Project, 4 pp.

Keywords: Access to health care, Health care delivery, Health equity, Oral health, Public policy

Wilson K. 2023. Minimally-invasive care and a representative oral health workforce. Boston, MA: Community Catalyst, Dental Access Project, 5 pp.

Annotation: This brief provides information on how minimally invasive oral health care can be used to improve oral health and overall health, as well as on people’s experiences with receiving oral health care. It presents policy opportunities and other approaches to help ensure that people can regularly access oral health care from health professionals they trust—a necessity for minimally invasive oral health care to be effective. It also discusses building a representative oral health workforce, strategies to promote trust between patients and health professionals, and opportunities for improving access to oral health care and advancing oral health equity through the provision of minimally invasive oral health care.

Keywords: Access to health care, Health care delivery, Health equity, Oral health, Public policy

Heaton LJ, Santoro M, Martin P, Tranby EP. 2023. Cost, race, and the persistent challenges in our oral health system. Boston, MA: Carequest Institute for Oral Health, 18 pp.

Annotation: This report provides information from the Annual State of Oral Health Equity in America (SOHEA) survey conducted by the CareQuest Institute. Topics include dental visits—past and planned, oral health and oral problems, impacts of oral health problems, protective factors, oral hygiene practices, and barriers to care—disabilities and discrimination. For each topic, statistical information is presented in text and figures.

Keywords: Access to health care, Disabilities, Oral health, Oral health equity, Oral hygiene, Surveys

West Virginia Oral Health Coalition. 2023. Beyond the waiting room: The state of dental care access in West Virginia. Carlsbad, CA: Harmony Health Foundation, 19 pp.

Annotation: This report provides information on access to oral health care in West Virginia. It discusses oral health workforce shortages, economic challenges related to accessing care, and disparities in access to care. The report also describes a “mystery shopper” program conducted by the West Virginia Oral Health Coalition to gauge patient experiences when seeking health care in the state and to learn about access to oral health care among vulnerable populations.

Keywords: Access to health care, Health care utilization, Low income groups, Oral health, Oral health equity, State information, West Virginia