compiled by Jane E.M. Steffensen, MPH, CHES

Texas Resources
(Electronic materials were retrieved and available as of Fall 2001.

Selected Texas Reports and Oral Health Issues

Caries and Feeding Practices in South Texas Preschool Children, Final Report. by Franklin Garcia-Godoy, Connie C. Mobley, Daniel L. Jones, Departments of Pediatric Dentistry and Community Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Dental School. Submitted to Minority Health Grants Program, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, September 1995.

Child Advocates Improve Children's Oral Health with Water Fluoridation. Child Advocates Making a Difference, National Association of Child Advocates, September 2001.
Website: http://www.childadvocacy.org/camad.htm

Committee on Public Health, Texas House of Representatives, Interim Report 2000, Report to the 77th Legislature, January 2001.
Website: http://www.house.state.tx.us/house/commit/76r/reports/report.htm

Dental Oncology Education Program in Texas Website: http://www.doep.org/

Final Report: Review of the Texas Oral Health Program. Prepared for Texas Department of Health by the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, September 1999. Texas Department of Health, 1100 West 49th St., Austin, TX 78756-3199.

Health Along the Texas-Mexico Border: Insights on the Utilization of Health Services by Mexican Nationals. by David C. Warner and Anita Kuhl Zinnecker, Austin, TX: LBJ School of Public Affairs, 1990.

Health Care Across the Border: The Experiences of U.S. Citizens in Mexico. by David C. Warner and Kevin Reed. Austin, TX: LBJ School of Public Affairs, 1993.

Health: Chronic Conditions in Bordering the Future by CK Rylander, Austin, TX: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, July 1998. Website: http://www.window.state.tx.us/border/ch08/ch08.html

HRSA State Health Workforce Profiles, Texas, US DHHS, PHS, HRSA, Bureau of Health Professions National Center for Health Workforce Information and Analysis, December 2000.
Website: http://www.bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/profiles/default.htm

Oral Cancer Risk Behaviors - February 1997. (Found on website under Reports)
Website: htpp://www.tdh.state.tx.us/dental/

Oral Health Improvement, Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 43,
Website: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/hstoc.html

Oral Health in Texas - June 1997. (Found on website under Reports)
Website: htpp://www.tdh.state.tx.us/dental/

Oral Health of Hispanics: Epidemiology and Risk Factors, Chapter 11 by John P. Brown in Health Policy and the Hispanic by Furino A (Ed.). Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992

Oral Health of Mexican Americans and Whites, San Antonio Study Site, The Second International Collaborative Study of Oral Health Outcomes in Comparing Oral Health Care Systems: by M. Chen, RM Anderson, DE Barmes, M. H. Leclercq, CS Lyttle. Geneva: World Health Organization and CHAS University of Chicago, 1997.

Providing Health Care to the Uninsured in Texas: A Guide for County Officials by Caton M. Fenz, The Access Project, September 2000. Website: http://txhap.protex.org/

Random Access: Holes in the Texas Health Care Safety Net: Reports from the Communities
The Texas Health Access Project, March 2001. Website: http://txhap.protex.org/

Report of the Texas Dental Health Survey: Make Your Smile Count by John P. Brown, Jane E. M. Steffensen, and Dennis McMahon, Department of Community Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Submitted to Texas Department of Health, September 1999.

Spit Tobacco Prevention Network (STOPN), Austin, TX.
Website: http://www.nospit.com/ or http://www.flash.net/~stopn/TexMain.html

The Facilitating Role of Mobile Dental Van Programs in Promoting Professional Dental Education by Carlos W. Werner, Peggy P. Gragg Kathy M. Geurink Brazilian Dental Journal (2000) 11(2):127-133.
Website: http://www.forp.usp.br/bdj/bdj11(2)/t08112/t08112.html

Testimony to House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
Hearing on Medicaid-related agency requests, Austin, TX: Center for Public Policy Priorities,
February 12, 2000.
Website: http://www.cppp.org/products/testimony/testimony/77th/tst77medicaid.html

Texas Rural Health Clinic Study, Austin, TX: Center for Rural Health Initiatives, April 1999.
Website: http://www.crhi.state.tx.us/pdf/study.pdf

Unmet Needs in the Health and Human Service (HHS) System in Texas, November 1999. This document summarizes the data collected on unmet needs from local needs assessments synthesized for local planning forums, the results of participant discussions at local forums, and the results of consumer focus groups. Website: http://www.hhsc.texas.gov/ipisi/rpf/Validation2.htm

Watch Your Mouth, About Children’s Oral Health, Texas
Website: http://www.kidsoralhealth.org/facts/texas.html

Water Fluoridation Costs in Texas: Texas Health Steps (EPSDT-Medicaid). (Found on website under Reports)
Website: http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/dental/

The following Reports from the Urban Institute include Texas oral health policy:

Does SCHIP Spell Better Dental Care Access for Children? An Early Look at a New Initiative by Ruth Almelda, Ian Hill, Genevieve Kenney, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, July 2001.
Website: http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/occa50.html

Gaps in Prevention and Treatment: Dental Care for Low-Income Children by Genevieve Kenney, Grace Ko, and Barbara A. Ormond, Number B-15 in Series, New Federalism: National Survey of America’s Children, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, April 2000.
Website: http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/series_b/b15/b15.html

Selected Texas Reports and Health Policy Studies

Texas Blue Ribbon Task Force on The Uninsured Report to the 77th Legislature, February 2001
Website: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/commit/archive/BlueRibbon.htm#Reports

Compilation of Responses to Blue Ribbon Task Force’s Request for Information (RFI)
Proposals to Provide Additional Health Insurance Coverage Options for Texans, June 2000,
Website: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/commit/archive/BlueRibbon.htm#Reports

Health Care, ProTex Website: http://www.protex.org/priority/health_care/priority_health.shtml
and the Texas Health Access Project Documents and Useful Links to Reports
Website: http://txhap.protex.org/documents.shtml and http://txhap.protex.org/links.shtml

A Continuum of Care: Health Issues for Older Adults by League of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund.

Texas House of Representatives, House Research Organization, Focus Report, Health Care for Uninsured Texans, February 4, 1999 Website: http:www.capitol.state.tx.us/hrofr/report.htm#int

All of the following Reports are from the Urban Institute:

Website: http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/state_focus.html#tx

Health Case Study
State Report: Health Policy for Low-Income People in Texas by Joshua Wiener, Alison Evans, Crystal Kuntz, Margaret Sulvetta, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1997

Highlights from State Reports: Health Policy for Low-Income People in Texas by Joshua M. Wiener, Alison Evans, Crystal Kuntz, Margaret Sulvetta, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1997.

Income Support and Social Services Case Study
State Report: Income Support and Social Services for Low-Income People in Texas by Nancy Pindus, Randy Capps, Jerome Gallagher, Linda Giannarelli, Milda Saunders, Robin Smith, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1997.

Highlights from State Reports: Income Support and Social Services for Low-Income People in Texas by Nancy Pindus, Randy Capps, Jerome Gallagher, Linda Giannarelli, Milda Saunders, Robin Smith, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1997.

State Health Profile: Health Insurance, Access, and Use: Texas, Tabulations from the 1997 National Survey of America’s Families by Jennifer Haley and Stephen Zuckerman, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, July 2000.

State Child Care Profile for Children with Employed Mother: Texas by Kathleen Snyder and Gina Adams, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, February 2001.

State Update: Recent Changes in Texas Welfare and Work, Child Care, and Child Welfare Systems by Randy Capps, Nancy Pindus, Kathleen Snyder, and Jacob Leos-Urbel, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, June 2001

Selected Resources from the Federal Government and Other Sources

Electronic materials were retrieved and available as of Fall 2001.

Selected Electronic Oral Health Resources from the Federal Government

Department of Health and Human Services

Office of the Surgeon General
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Oral Health in America, A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of Health, 2000 (Full Report)
Website: http:www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/oralhealth/

Office of Inspector General
Children's Dental Services under Medicaid, Access and Utilization, OEI-09-93-00240, San Francisco: DHHS Office of Inspector General, Office of Evaluation and Inspections, April 1996.
Website: http://www.dhhs.gov/progorg/oei/reports/a10.pdf

Office of Minority Health
Making Oral Health a Priority, Closing the Gap, Office of Minority Health July 1999
Website: http://www.omhrc.gov/OMH/sidebar/archivedctg.htm#11 or
http://www.omhrc.gov/ctg/ctgOH.pdf

CMS/HRSA Oral Health Initiative (Many Resources Available on Website)
Website: http://www.hrsa.gov/oralhealth/

Describes the efforts to eliminate disparities in access to oral health care and improve oral health. Contains lists of online resources and information about grants.

Health Resources and Services Administration
Oral Health, HRSA Information Center. Website: http://www.ask.hrsa.gov/

US DHHS, PHS, HRSA, Bureau of Health Professions National Center for Health Workforce Information and Analysis, December 2000.
Website: http://www.bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/profiles/default.htm

Exploring the Future of Pharmacy and Dentistry, Health Workforce Newslink, Fall 1999
Website: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov:80/healthworkforce/oldpages/newslink.htm

Dentists, United States Health Workforce Personnel Factbook, Dentists
Website: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov:80/healthworkforce/oldpages/factbook.htm

Opportunities to Use Medicaid in Support of Access to Health Services, Oral Health Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, December 2000.
Website: http://www.hrsa.gov/medicaidprimer/oral_part3only.htm

Remarks to the Public-Private Partnership on Children and Oral Health Networking Conference Prepared Remarks of Claude Earl Fox, M.D., M.P.H., Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public-Private Partnership on Children and Oral Health Networking Conference, Washington, D.C., March 14, 200.
Website: http://newsroom.hrsa.gov:80/speeches/childoralhealth.htm

HRSA Partners Focus on Oral Health
Website: http://newsroom.hrsa.gov:80/NewsBriefs/2001/oralhealthmtg.htm

Model Child Health Programs, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, April 1998
Website: http://newsroom.hrsa.gov:80/factsheets/chmodels.htm

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly Health Care Financing Administration)
Assuring Dental Health for Nursing Home Residents Satellite Broadcast, September 21, 2001. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Website: http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/training/92101cnf.htm

Access of Low-Income Children to Necessary Dental Services, Miscellaneous Letters to State Medicaid Directors, Health Care Financing Administration, January 18, 2001
Life, Agenda and full text manuscripts Website: http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/cmsosmd.htm

Innovative Management of Dental Decay for Young Children Enrolled in Medicaid/SCHIP, Miscellaneous Letters to State Medicaid Directors. Health Care Financing Administration, May 8, 2000. Website: http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/cmsosmd.htm

Guidance on Proposed Demonstration Projects under Section 1115 Authority, Letter to State Medicaid Directors, Health Care Financing Administration, July 31, 2000.
Website: http://www.hcfa.gov/init/ch73100.htm

Medicaid Services State by State, Health Care Financing Administration, Division of Intergovernmental Affairs, October 1, 1996. HCFA Publication 02155-97.

Medicaid and School Health: A Technical Assistance Guide. Health Care Financing Administration, Division of Intergovernmental Affairs, August 1997.
Website: http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/scbintro.htm

Healthy People 2000 and 2010

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthy People 2010. 2nd ed. With Understanding and Improving Health and Objectives for Improving Health. 2 vols. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 2000.
Healthy People 2010 Focus Area 21 Oral Health Website: http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/

Measuring and Tracking Healthy People 2010 Oral Health Objectives
Tracking Healthy People 2010, (Specific Definitions and Methods for Measuring Oral Health Objectives). - Oral Health Chapter in
Website: http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/document/HTML/tracking/contents.htm

Data 2010 – The Healthy People 2010 Database
(Following Oral Health Trends) Website: http://wonder.cdc.gov/data2010

Healthy People 2000 Progress Review of Oral Health, December 15, 1999, Briefing Book Materials, Objective Charts and Disparity Charts
Website: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/hp2000/oralhealth/oralhealth.htm

Measuring and Tracking Healthy People 2000 Oral Health Objectives
Statistical Notes 12 Operational Definitions for Year 2000 Objectives: Priority Area 13, Oral Health, 20 pp. (PHS) 97-1237, (Specific Definitions and Methods for Measuring Oral Health Objectives) - No. 12 Statistical Notes for Oral Health in
Website: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hp2k/statnt/20-1.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Division of Oral Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Many Resources Available on Website)
Website: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/oh/index.htm

Offers program information, fact sheets, and other publications about oral health issues affecting all Americans. School oral health programs, dental sealants, and fluorides are among the oral health topics addressed.

National Oral Health Surveillance System
Website: http://www.cdc.gov/nohss/

Contains national and state indicators of oral health, guidelines for oral conditions and oral health care, information on state dental programs, and links to other sources of oral health information. The eight current surveillance indicators are dental visits, teeth cleaning, complete tooth loss, fluoridation status, caries experience, untreated caries, dental sealants, and cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx. NOHSS is a collaborative effort between CDC's Division of Oral Health and the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors.

National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Federal Report, “Health, United States 2001 with Urban and Rural Health Chartbook,” September 2001, Chartbook Figures, Figure 22 Edentulism, Figure 25 Dentist per 100,000 Population, Figure 26 Dental Visits Within Past Year
Website: http.www.hhs.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/olfigidx.htm

The Oral Health of Older Americans. Aging Trends, No. 3.
Website: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/aging/trendsoverview.htm

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health
The Face of a Child: Proceedings Surgeon General’s Workshop and Conference on Children and Oral Health. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health
Website: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/sgr/children/children.htm

A Plan to Eliminate Craniofacial, Oral, and Dental Health Disparities, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, February 2001.
Website: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/research/health_disp.asp

Health Disparities Reports, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Website: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/research/healthDisp/hd_reports.asp

National Oral Health Information Clearinghouse (NOHIC)
Website: http://www.nohic.nidcr.nih.gov/welcome.html

NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis & Management of Dental Caries Throughout Life (agenda and full text manuscripts)
Website: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/news/CONSENSUS/Agenda.htm

NIH Report on the Connection Between Oral and General Health
The Oral-Systemic Health Connection Website: www.nidcr.nih.gov/spectrum/nidcr2/2menu.htm

Housing and Urban Development
HUD Report on Homeless The Forgotten Americans – Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve (see Chapter 12 of the Technical Report) Website: http://www.hud.gov/pressrel/pr99-258.html

Head Start
Head Start and Partners Forum on Oral Health, Head Start Bulletin #71, May 2001.
Website: http://www.headstartinfo.org/publications/bullet.htm

Head Start Partners Oral Health Forum Papers (Seven Papers from the Head Start - WIC - HRSA - HCFA Forum on Early Childhood Oral Health convened on September 16-17, 1999 in Arlington, Virginia under the sponsorship of Head Start, WIC and the HRSA-HCFA Oral Health Initiative. The papers were published in the Summer 2000 Issue - Journal of Public Health Dentistry (American Association of Public Health Dentistry)
Website: http://www2.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb/about/init_pri/oralpaper/

U.S. General Accounting Office
Oral Health: Dental Disease is a Chronic Problem Among Low-Income Populations United States General Accounting Office (GAO), Report to Congressional Requesters. HEHS-00-72, April 2000.
On GAO search engine, insert "HEHS-00-72"
Website: http://www.gao.gov

Oral Health: Factors Contributing to Low Use of Dental Services by Low-Income Populations
United States General Accounting Office (GAO), Report to Congressional Requesters. HEHS-00-149, September 2000. On GAO search engine, insert "HEHS-00-149"
Website: http://www.gao.gov

Selected Electronic Websites and Oral Health Resources from Other Sources

Electronic materials were retrieved and available as of Fall 2001.

Access to Baby and Child Dentistry (ABCD) Program
ABCD focuses on preventive and restorative dental care for Medicaid-eligible children from birth to age six, with emphasis on enrollment by age one. Website: http://abcd-dental.org/

American Dental Association
Future of Dentistry Report. American Dental Association, 2001.

Achieving Improvement in Medicaid: Report of "Aim for Change" in Medicaid Conference, Chicago, Illinois, August 2-3, 1999. American Dental Association
Website: http://www.ada.org/public/topics/access.html

American Medical Association
Disparities in Children's Oral Health and Access to Dental Care by Wendy E. Mouradian, Elizabeth Wehr, James J. Crall. JAMA 2000;284:2625-2631. (Vol. 284, No. 20, November 22/29, 2000)
Website: http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n20/abs/jsc00218.html

Apple Tree Dental
Bringing Smiles to People with Special Dental Access Needs
Website: http://appletreedental.org/Home.htm

Apple Tree Dental, Minneapolis, MN and Access Dental Care, NC, Local Innovations in Health Care Conference, 2000.
Website: http://www.conferencereports.com/innovations/session/minn.html

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
Putting Teeth in Children's Oral Health Programs: The State of Children's Oral Health and the Role of State Title V Programs, Issue Briefs, Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, December 1999.
Website: http://www.amchp1.org/news/index.htm#issues

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Children’s Oral Health: State Initiatives and Opportunities to Address the Silent Epidemic, Access Brief, Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Website: http://www.astho.org/access/documents.html

Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors
Guidelines for State and Territorial Oral Health Programs. Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, July 2001. (Under Resources on website)
Website: http://www.astdd.org/

Building Infrastructure and Capacity in State and Territorial Oral Health Programs. Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, April 2000. (Under Resources on website)
Website: http://www.astdd.org/

Bright Futures
Bright Futures is a practical development approach to providing health supervision for children of all ages from birth to adolescence. Bright Futures publications include Bright Futures in practice: Oral health which provides a broad set of oral health guidelines including risk assessing, measuring outcomes, making oral health supervision accessible, and highlighting the essentials of oral health.

Bright Futures in Practice: Oral Health
Website: http:www.brightfutures.org/oralhealth/pdf/index.html

Bright Futures and Oral Health, Bright Futures and Managed Care Action Brief, Improving Quality Care for Children, National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation, August 1999, Number 3.
Website: http://www.nihcm.org/AB3.pdf

California

Center for the Health Professions, California Dental Access Project
Improving Oral Health Care Delivery Systems in California, California Dental Access Project An Initiative to Improve the Oral Health of California’s Underserved, December 2000.
Website: http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/dentalaccess2.html

Center for California Health Workforce Studies at the University of California
Geographic Distribution of Dentists in California, Center for California Health Workforce Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, CA, January 2000.
Website: http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/press_releases/dental.html

Dental Health Foundation
- The Oral Health of California's Children: A Neglected Epidemic
- The Oral Health of California's Children: Halting a Neglected Epidemic
- Children's Dental Health Initiative's School-based Dental Program Evaluation and Executive Summary
- Resource Directory for California’s Children
Website: http://www.dentalhealthfoundation.org/topics/children/

Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, George Washington University
School-Based Dental Health: Considerations for Program Development by Erica M. Allen, Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, Summer 2001.
Website: http://www.healthinschools.org/slides/sbdental.htm

State Policy Context for School-Based Health Centers with Special Focus on Development of Mental Health and Dental Health Services by Mark Greiner, Gail Nickerson, and Steven Rosenberg, A Rosenberg & Associates Policy Memorandum, Summer 2001.
Website: http://www.healthinschools.org/sh/policypaper.asp

Caring for Kids: Expanding Dental and Mental Health Services through School-Based Health Centers, Grant Program, Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Website: http://www.healthinschools.org/grantprogram.asp

Dental Care in Schools: SBHCs Take Comprehensiveness a Step Further, Access to Comprehensive Health Care in Schools, Fall 1997.
Website: http://www.healthinschools.org/pubs/access/Fall97.asp

Center for Health Care Strategies
States' Approaches to Increasing Medicaid Beneficiaries' Access to Dental Services, by
Camm A. Epstein, Center for Health Care Strategies, October 2000.
Website: http://www.chcs.org/publications/purchasing.html

Center for Policy Alternatives
Oral Health Overview, Center for Policy Alternatives
Website: http://www.stateaction.org/issues/healthcare/dental/index.cfm

State of the States: Overview of 1999 State Legislation on Access to Oral Health. Center for Policy Alternatives, December 1999.
Website: http://www.stateaction.org/issues/healthcare/dental/overview.cfm or
http://www.communityvoices.org/Articles/Results-Publications.asp

Fact Sheet: Dental Coverage Under Medicaid. Community Voices, September 1999
Website: http://www.stateaction.org/issues/healthcare/dental/dentalfactsh.pdf

Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
Website: http://chid.nih.gov/

Produced by health-related agencies of the federal government, this database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources. The Oral Health Database, which is sponsored by NIH's National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, is part of CHID.

Community Voices, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The Disparity Cavity: Filling America's Oral Health Gap
Website: http://www.communityvoices.org/Articles/Results-Publications.asp

Oral Health for All: Policy for Available, Accessible and Acceptable Care
http://www.communityvoices.org/Articles/Results-Publications.asp or
Website: http://www.stateaction.org/issues/healthcare/dental/warrenexsum.pdf

State of the States: Overview of 1999 State Legislation on Access to Oral Health
Website: http://www.communityvoices.org/Articles/Results-Publications.asp

Connecticut Health Foundation, Children's Fund of Connecticut
Elements of Effective Action to Improve Oral Health and Access to Dental Care for Connecticut's Children and Families by James Crall and Burton Edelstein. Connecticut Health Foundation, Children's Fund of Connecticut, July 2001.
Website: http://www.cthealth.org/site/health.htm

Children's Defense Fund
Oral Health: Dental Problems Deserve Serious Concern, Children’s Defense Fund, 2001
Website: http://www.childrensdefense.org/hs_tp_oralhlth.php

Children's Dental Health Project (Many Resources Available on Website)
Includes policy briefs, fact sheets, and links to online resources about children's oral health, particularly issues involving access to care, financing programs, and health disparities. The website includes Background Papers for The Face of a Child: Surgeon General’s Workshop on Children and Oral Health. Website: http://www.childent.org/

Strategic Communications in Oral Health: Influencing the Public and Professional Opinions and Actions. Charles Fulwood, 2000.
http://www.childent.org/Oral%20health/by_topic_oral_policy.htm

Frameworks Institute
Framing Children’s Oral Health for Public Attention and Support
Website: http://www.kidsoralhealth.org/materials/downloads.html

Children's Oral Health, Kids Count E-Zine, Issue 2, Frameworks Institute
Website: http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/issue2.html

Grantmakers in Health
Filling the Gap: Strategies for Improving Oral Health, Issue Focus, Grantmakers in Health Bulletin, Oral Health, June 4, 2001. Website: http://www.gih.org/info-url2678/info-url_list.htm?attrib_id=3320

George Washington University, Center for Health Services Research and Policy
Sample Purchasing Specifications for Medicaid Pediatric Dental and Oral Health Services.
George Washington University Medical Center, Center for Health Services Research and Policy, March 10, 2000. Click on "Sample Purchasing Specifications"
Website: http://www.gwu.edu/~chsrp

Henry J. Kaiser Foundation
Website: http://www.kff.org/

Human Services Policy Center, University of Washington
Citizen’s Watch for Kids’ Oral Health Project, Human Services Policy Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Website: http://www.hspc.org/projects/Oral_Health/index.html

Illinois Workforce Partnership
Access to Dental Care Services Low-Income Children in Illinois, Assessing Capacity of Dentists to Serve Low-Income Children, by Gayle R. Byck, Hollis J. Russinof, Judith A. Cooksey
Illinois Workforce Partnership, Illinois Primary Health Care Association and the Illinois Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, December 2000.
Website: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov:80/healthworkforce/partnership/illinois.htm


Institute of Medicine
IOM Report on Children's Health – Dental Extract America's Children: Health Insurance and Access to Care
Website: http://books.nap.edu/books/0309065607/html/index.html and search on “dental”, or
http://search.nap.edu/nap0cgi/morehits.cgi?display=text@isbn=0309065607&term=dental&file=44-64.htm

National Conference of State Legislatures
Oral Health, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2001.
Website: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/oralhea.htm

Oral Health in the United States, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2000.
Website: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/prevent.htm

Increasing Dentists' Participation in SCHIP and Medicaid (PDF) by Shelly Gehshan, Paetra Hauck, and Julie Scales, Promising Practices Issue Brief, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2001.
Website: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/Forum/oralhealth.htm

Supervision and Scope of Practice of Dental Hygienists: Recent Changes to State Law or Administrative Rules. National Conference of State Legislatures, October 2001.
Website: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/DentalHy.htm

Access and Primary Care - Oral Health. National Conference of State Legislatures, February 2000.
Website: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/oral.htm

Health Care Program, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Dental Health Care Services. National Conference of State Legislatures, 1999.
Website: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/dental.htm

State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Dental Care for Kids. National Conference of State Legislatures, 1999. Website: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/CHIPDENT.htm

Must Poor Kids Have Bad Teeth? by Laura Tobler State Legislatures Magazine, May 2000.
Website: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/pubs/500TEETH.htm

Exploring a New Option: Section 1115 Demonstration Waivers Under the State Children's Health Insurance Program by Gabriela Alcalde. National Conference of State Legislatures
Website: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/Forum/1115waivers.htm

Frequently Asked Questions, The Health Care Workforce, National Conference of State Legislatures
Website: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/Forum/faqworkforce.htm

National Governors Association (NGA) (Many Resources Available on Website)

Includes information from NGA Policy Academies on Improving Oral Health Care for Children
such as policy briefs, fact sheets, and links to online resources about children's oral health, particularly issues involving access to care, financing programs, and health disparities

Children's Oral Health, Center for Best Practices, National Governors Association
Website: http://www.nga.org/center/topics/1,1188,D_683,00.html

National Health Law Program
State Initiatives to Improve Access to Dental Care. By J. Perkins and J. Short, National Health Law Program, October 17, 2000.
Website: http://www.healthlaw.org/pubs/200010dental.html

Docket of Medicaid Cases Filed to Improve Dental Access. By J. Perkins, National Health Law Program, October 27, 2000 and Updated November 15, 2000.
Website: http://www.healthlaw.org/pubs/200011dentaldocket.htm

National Maternal & Child Oral Health Resource Center, Georgetown University (Many Resources Available on Website)

The National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (NMCOHRC) at NCEMCH provides information and materials to assist and support health professionals, policymakers, consumers, and others in improving oral health services for children, adolescents, and their families. The Oral Health Programs Database gathers information about oral health programs nationwide to share with individuals working in oral health. The NCEMCH Library contains many items on oral health. For lists of recent items, see the MCH Program Interchange: Focus on Oral Health series developed by the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center at NCEMCH

Building Partnerships to Improve Children's Access to Medicaid Oral Health Services: National Conference Proceedings, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 2-4, 1998. By Spisak S, Holt K, eds.
Arlington, VA: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, 1999.
Website: http://www.ncemch.org/oralhealth/proceed.html

New England Regional Oral Health Access Conference Proceedings. National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, 2000.
Website: www.mchoralhealth.org/PDFs/OH_NEnglnd_prcdngs.pdf

National Rural Health Association
Access to Oral Health Care Services Remains Challenging by Jay R. Anderson, Chief Dental Officer, Division of Community and Migrant Health, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration. Rural Clinician Quarterly Vol. 10, No. 2.
http://www.crhi.state.tx.us/pdf/rh5_reporter/72sept00.htm

Milbank Memorial Fund
Pediatric Dental Care in CHIP and Medicaid: Paying for What Kids Need, Getting Value for
State Payments, Reforming States Group and Milbank Memorial Fund, July 1999.
Website: http://www.milbank.org/990716mrpd.html

Oral Health America
Website: http://www.oralhealthamerica.org/

Partners in Prevention
Priorities in Prevention: Oral Health, Partnership for Prevention, May 2001
Website: http://www.prevent.org/prioritiesinprevention.htm

Public Human Services Association
1999 Survey on Access to Dental Care for Medicaid-Enrolled Children. by Erin Nagy, American Public Human Services Association, July 2000.
Website: http://medicaid.aphsa.org/pubs/pubs.htm#dentalcare

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Improving Dental Care, (Chapter 9) by Paul Brodeur In Stephen L. Issaacs and James R. Knickman, (Editors). To Improve Health and Health Care 2001 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology.
Website: http://www.rwjf.org/app/rw_publications_and_links/publicationsPdfs/anthology2001/chapt9.htm

Call for Proposals Pipeline, Profession and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, November 5, 2001.
Website: http://www.rwjf.org/app/rw_applying_for_a_grant/rw_app_cfp_abstract.jsp?cfpCode=DAP

Pipeline, Profession and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education (Columbia University)
Website: http://dentalpipeline.columbia.edu/

Expanding Dental and Mental Health Services through School-Based Health Centers, Caring for Kids, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Website: http://www.rwjf.org/app/rw_applying_for_a_grant/rw_app_cfp_abstract.jsp?cfpCode=abc

Special Care Dentistry (formerly Federation of Special Care Organizations in Dentistry)
Website: http://www.foscod.org

Special Olympics, Special Smiles
Inroads to Access, Special Olympics, June 2001.
Website: http://www.special smiles.org/welcome.htm or
http://www.nohic.nidcr.nih.gov/pubs/ohnotes/notesp97/pages/page2.html

The Health Status and Needs of Individuals With Mental Retardation by Sarah M. Horowitz, Bonnie D. Kerker, Pamela L. Owens, Edward Zigler, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine and Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2000. Website: http://www.specialolympics.org/world_games/games_stories/Health%20Status.PDF

South Carolina Health Workforce Partnership
Rational Dental Service Areas, South Carolina Health Workforce Partnership
Website: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov:80/healthworkforce/partnership/southcarolina.htm

Task Force on Community Preventive Services
The Guide to Community Preventive Services, Promoting Oral Health. Task Force on Community Preventive Services.
Website: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/home_f.html

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2nd Edition, 1996, Report of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Website: http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/cpsix.htm

UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
Early Childhood Dental Caries, Policy Brief, Number 2 and Full Report by Laurence J. Platt and Maritza C. Cabezas. Building Community Systems for Young Children, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, Los Angeles, CA and California Policy Research Center (CPRC), Berkley, CA
Website: http://healthychild.ucla.edu/Frames.cfm?Menu=prop10 or
http://danr.ucop.edu/news/Jan-June2001/caries.pdf or
http://healthychild.ucla.edu/dental.pdf

Urban Institute
Does SCHIP Spell Better Dental Care Access for Children? An Early Look at a New Initiative by Ruth Almelda, Ian Hill, Genevieve Kenney, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, July 2001.
Website: http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/occa50.htmlx

Gaps in Prevention and Treatment: Dental Care for Low-Income Children by Genevieve Kenney, Grace Ko, and Barbara A. Ormond, Number B-15 in Series, New Federalism: National Survey of America’s Children, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, April 2000.
Website: http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/series_b/b15/b15.html
Does SCHIP Spell Better Dental Care Access for Children? An Early Look at New Initiatives.

Washington Dental Service Foundation
Community Partnerships, Washington Dental Service Foundation
Website: http://www.ddpwa.com/about/comm_partnerships.htm

Watch Your Mouth
About the Campaign, Watch Your Mouth
Website: http://www.kidsoralhealth.org/about/index.html

Watch Your Mouth, Washington State Campaign for Kids Oral Health
Website: http://www.kidsoralhealth.org/about/WA/index.html

Watch Your Mouth, California Campaign for Kids Oral Health
Website: http://www.kidsoralhealth.org/about/CA/index.html
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