Best Practice Approaches and Public Health Actions
Responding to A National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health
The ASTDD Best Practices Committee urges state, territorial and community oral health programs to respond to U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona’s report, A National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health, by developing, implementing and supporting best practices that will promote oral health, eliminate oral health disparities, and improve quality of life. Oral health programs need to cultivate best practices that will demonstrate impact or effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and collaboration or integration to achieve desired goals. Best Practice Approach Reports on this website provide information and share ideas for cultivating best practices. The following Best Practice Approach Reports can guide several of the needed efforts proposed by the Surgeon General’s Call to Action:
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“Create oral health action plans” with “monitoring and evaluation components”
