Access
This is the overarching goal of the Access to Care initiative.
Answer: What is to improve the availability and utilization of oral health services for priority populations?
The primary goal of this initiative is to prioritize population-level communication to increase oral health literacy and support these behaviors within communities.
Answer: What are healthy behaviors?
The main goal of this initiative is to integrate oral health assessment, education, prevention, and referral into these two types of programs.
Answer: What are primary care and social service programs?
The main goal of this initiative is to increase the diversity of the oral health workforce, enhance cultural and linguistic responsiveness, and strengthen its capacity to serve these populations.
Answer: What are priority populations?
The main goal of this initiative is to advance innovative policies and expand funding to support and sustain these county-wide goals.
Answer: What are the Alameda County Oral Health Strategic Plan goals?
This strategy focuses on improving and expanding dental care coordination by integrating it into programs, building partnerships, and leveraging resources like state case management and CHW benefits.
Answer: Improve and expand dental care coordination?
One strategy calls for updating and implementing this type of plan to align with the Oral Health Strategic Plan.
Answer: What is a two-year communication plan?
One strategy focuses on incorporating oral health into these programs that serve pregnant individuals and young children, including training non-dental professionals and supporting closed-loop referral systems.
Answer: What are Prenatal Care and Early Childhood Programs?
One strategy focuses on expanding and diversifying this network of providers and their staff, using best practices in recruitment and retention such as mentorships and scholarships.
Answer: What is the Medi-Cal Dental providers network?
One strategy focuses on advocating for reimbursement policies and ensuring this responsibility includes dental care coordination.
Answer: What are Managed Care responsibilities?
To improve awareness and utilization of dental care, this strategy targets two specific groups: individuals during pregnancy and children in this age range.
Answer: Who are prenatal individuals and children aged 0–5?
To ensure oral health messages resonate with diverse audiences, the communication plan emphasizes that messages must meet these two criteria, addressing cultural and language needs.
Answer: What are culturally and linguistically appropriate?
To strengthen pediatric care, this strategy includes integrating dental components into family practices and supporting this preventive treatment often applied during well-child visits.
Answer: What is fluoride varnish application?
To improve community services, this strategy emphasizes adding cultural sensitivity components to staff training and advocating for this role to be included in job descriptions.
Answer: What is dental care coordination?
To improve dental access for priority populations, the plan aligns with this statewide mandate and explores funding sources to support related activities.
Answer: What is the KOHA mandate?
This strategy aims to enhance and expand dental services provided in educational settings, often in collaboration with immunization programs and dental provider organizations.
Answer: Enhance and expand school-based/school-linked dental services?
The communication strategy seeks to expand its reach by enhancing the use of this digital platform, which allows for real-time engagement and broad dissemination of oral health messages.
Answer: What is social media?
Answer: What is social media?
This strategy aims to integrate oral health into pediatric residency programs by adding this type of educational content to their curriculum.
Answer: What is dental health curriculum?
This state initiative and benefit are key resources for enhancing community dental care coordination and improving oral health services.
Answer: What is community health worker （CHW） benefit?
This strategy emphasizes analyzing and implementing policies to expand the oral health workforce and improve access for priority populations by ensuring collaboration among these groups.
Answer: Who are policymakers and health policy organizations?
This mandate, highlighted in Strategy 4, is a key component of early prevention and requires collaboration with schools, early childhood programs, and dental societies to increase participation.
Answer: What is the KOHA mandate?
To empower partners, the strategy includes creating a network of these advocates through academic institutions and existing programs, who will champion oral health in their communities.
Answer: What are oral health champions?
To reach high-risk populations, one strategy calls for training staff in these programs and ensuring oral health representation within disease prevention efforts.
Answer: What are other public health programs?
Name one way the workforce development strategy collaborates with academic institutions to strengthen oral health capacity.
Answer: What is hosting residents/interns or incorporating a dental community health practicum into allied health residency programs?
This strategy calls for identifying and creating policies and processes that make it easier for patients to connect with dental services. What is the term used to describe this type of system?
Answer: What is care coordination?