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Search Results: MCH Organizations

This list of organizations is drawn from the MCH Organizations Database. Contact information is the most recent known to the MCH Digital Library.


Displaying records 1 through 3 (3 total).

Pew Charitable Trusts, Children's Dental Policy

Annotation: Pew Charitable Trusts, Children's Dental Policy promotes cost-effective policies that expand access to oral health care so that children receive the treatment they need to grow, learn, and lead healthy lives. Research and advocacy efforts focus expanding the number of professionals who can provide high-quality oral health care to children from families with low incomes, ensuring coverage Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program leads to care, expanding access to fluoridate water, and expanding programs that provide dental sealants so that all children who need them receive them. The website provides access to data visualizations, videos, reports, and analysis.

Keywords: Children, Data analysis, Dental sealants, Fluorides, Foundations, Health insurance, Low income groups, Oral health, Policy development, Program development, Research, Water, Work force

Sealants for Smiles

Annotation: Sealants for Smiles provides free school based oral health education and dental sealants to children in need in Utah. Through a network of volunteer and paid oral health professionals, Sealants for Smiles provides oral health assessments and application of dental sealants and fluoride varnish to children who cannot access or afford oral health care. The program serves children in portable dental units set up within elementary schools.

Keywords: Dental care, Dental sealants, Fluorides, Mobile health units, Oral health, State initiatives, Utah, Voluntary health agencies

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