Dental public health strategies and health care reform.
There are significant challenges that need to be met to improve oral health in this country. Even if access to clinical preventive dental services is increased through a national health care plan, substantial improvement in the country's oral health cannot be achieved without support and assistance of public health initiatives. In January 1993, the steering committee for the Core Functions Project, U.S. Public Health Service, issued a report, Health Care Reform and Public Health: Population-Based Core Functions, to address the health care needs and conditions of populations as opposed to the individual health care needs under consideration by the national health care reform initiative. By adapting the report's core functions to the public's oral health, this article lays a foundation for the prevention, protection, and promotion of America's oral health.
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Arizona Department of Health Services, USA.
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