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Evidence Level: No similar strategy found in the established evidence for this NPM. See similar ESMs for this NPM or search for other strategies or promising practices.

Alignment with field-based evidence through Innovation Hub: Emerging. Aligns with Dental care service network as documented by the Children's Dental Services (MN) program in AMCHP's Innovation Hub.

Measurement Quadrant: Quadrant 4: Measuring quality of effect (% of "is anyone better off")

Service Type: Direct services level of pyramid

Essential Public Health Services: 7. Assure effective and equitable health systems

Service Recipient: Activities directed to families/children/youth

Goal: By 2020, refer 95% of urgent dental cases identified in the Arizona Sealant Program for treatment.

Numerator: Number of urgent dental cases referred

Denominator: Number of screened urgent dental cases

Significance: School-based dental sealant programs seek to ensure that children receive an evidenced based highly effective dental prevention service through a proven community-based approach. Tooth decay disproportionately affects low-income children and children from racial and ethnic minority groups. School-based sealant programs are designed to maximize effectiveness by targeting schools with high-risk children, whose vulnerable populations are less likely to receive dental care, including low-income and rural school. This data point will increase the quality of services provided to all children who participate in the school-based sealant programs by actively referring dental cases for treatment.

Data Sources and Data Issues: Internal program data from the Office of Oral Health

Year: 2023

Unit Type: Percentage, Unit Number: 100

Evidence Level: Moderate. Aligns with MCHbest strategy "School/Preschool Interventions". Find other NPM 13.2 school-level strategies in MCHbest.

Alignment with field-based evidence through Innovation Hub: No similar strategies found in Innovation Hub.

Measurement Quadrant: Quadrant 3: Measuring quantity of effect (# of "is anyone better off")

Service Type: Direct services level of pyramid

Essential Public Health Services: 7. Assure effective and equitable health systems

Service Recipient: Activities directed to families/children/youth

Goal: Increase access to oral health prevention services to low-income children through school-based/ school-linked programs

Numerator: Number of children screened at school-based/ school-linked programs

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Significance: Oral health is a vital component of overall health. Access to oral health care, oral health education and improved oral health literacy, good oral hygiene, practicing good oral health behaviors and adequate nutrition are essential components of oral health to help ensure that children, adolescents, and adults achieve and maintain oral health. People with limited access to preventive oral health services are at great risk for oral diseases. Oral health care remains the greatest unmet health need for children. Insufficient access to oral health care and effective preventive services affects children’s health, education, and ability to prosper. Early dental visits teach children that oral health is important. Children who receive oral health care early in life are more likely to have a good attitude about oral health professionals and dental visits. Poor oral health during pregnancy has been linked to preterm birth, low birth weight babies, gestational diabetes, and preeclampsia. Therefore oral health should be considered a vital component of comprehensive prenatal care. Additionally, pregnant women who receive oral health care are more likely to take their children to get oral health care. State Title V Maternal and Child Health programs have long recognized the importance of improving the availability and quality of services to improve oral health for children and pregnant women. States monitor and guide service delivery to assure that all children have access to preventive oral health services. Strategies for promoting oral health include providing preventive interventions, such as dental sealants and use of fluoride, increase the capacity of State oral health programs to provide preventive services, evaluating and improving methods of monitoring oral diseases and conditions, and increase the number of community health centers with an oral health component.

Data Sources and Data Issues: Data Source: CDC SEALS database system

Year: 2023

Unit Type: Count, Unit Number: 5,000

Evidence Level: No similar strategy found in the established evidence for this NPM. See similar ESMs for this NPM or search for other strategies or promising practices.

Alignment with field-based evidence through Innovation Hub: Emerging. Aligns with Dental care service network as documented by the Children's Dental Services (MN) program in AMCHP's Innovation Hub.

Measurement Quadrant: Quadrant 4: Measuring quality of effect (% of "is anyone better off")

Service Type: Direct services level of pyramid

Essential Public Health Services: 7. Assure effective and equitable health systems

Service Recipient: Activities directed to families/children/youth

Goal: By 2020, refer 95% of urgent dental cases identified in the Arizona Sealant Program for treatment.

Numerator: Number of early dental cases referred

Denominator: Number of early dental cases

Significance: School-based dental sealant programs seek to ensure that children receive an evidenced based highly effective dental prevention service through a proven community-based approach. Tooth decay disproportionately affects low-income children and children from racial and ethnic minority groups. School-based sealant programs are designed to maximize effectiveness by targeting schools with high-risk children, whose vulnerable populations are less likely to receive dental care, including low-income and rural school. This data point will increase the quality of services provided to all children who participate in the school-based sealant programs by actively referring dental cases for treatment.

Data Sources and Data Issues: Internal program data from the Office of Oral Health

Year: 2023

Unit Type: Percentage, Unit Number: 100

Evidence Level: Emerging. Aligns with MCHbest strategy "Caregiver/Parent Education/Counseling" (https://www.mchevidence.org/tools/strategies/13-2-2.php). Find other NPM 13 strategies (https://www.mchevidence.org/tools/strategies/search/refine.php?NPM=13) in MCHbest.

Alignment with field-based evidence through Innovation Hub: No similar strategies found in Innovation Hub.

Measurement Quadrant: Quadrant 2: Measuring quality of effort (% of reach; satisfaction)

Service Type: Enabling services level of pyramid

Essential Public Health Services: 3. Inform and educate the public

Service Recipient: Activities directed to families/children/youth

Goal: increase the percent of mothers who are receiving Medicaid who had a dental visit from 43.3% to 56.6% by 2026

Numerator: Number of women enrolled in Medicaid that received oral health education services

Denominator: Number of women enrolled in Medicaid

Significance: The OHP plans to expand its target population for services from students, children, and pregnant women to all District residents across the life span. The OHP anticipates partnerships with Colgate Bright Smiles Bright Futures (BSBF) program to introduce a virtual oral health education platform. The OHP is working on the development of a 5-year plan to partner with community health centers (CHCs) to find innovative ways to implement dental services in community-based settings making it easier for all DC residents to be linked to a dental home. The OHP plans to continue its partnerships with DCPS, DCPCS, OSSE, LCDCs, DC PCO, and DHCF. They also plan to expand from a school-based service delivery model to a community-based service delivery model over a 5-year period with the goal to increase access and utilization of oral health services. The OHP plans to continue to provide SBOHP services. The OHP also plans to continue partnership with the CDHC subgrantee to help sustain the program and identify opportunities for a larger CDHC role in the District and in the evolution of the OHP program model.

Data Sources and Data Issues: Medicaid

Year: 2023

Unit Type: Percentage, Unit Number: 100