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Addressing Oral Health Disparities in Underserved Populations: A Call to Action

This urgent dialogue explores unmet oral health needs and new workforce models for advancing health equity, highlighting disparities from 1900 to 2000 and emphasizing the urgency of addressing access issues in healthcare quality, preventive services, nutrition, diabetes, and cancer screening for underserved populations. The dialogue features insights from the National Healthcare Qualities and Disparities Report 2010 and calls for immediate attention to improving healthcare access and quality for all.

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Addressing Oral Health Disparities in Underserved Populations: A Call to Action

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  1. Unmet Oral Health Needs, Underserved Populations, and New Workforce Models: An Urgent Dialogue The American Journey to Health Equity Louis W Sullivan, MD* July 16, 2012 Atlanta, Georgia *Chairman, The Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Nation’s Health Professions

  2. Life Expectancy at birth by race and gender, U.S. 1900-2000 White Male White Female Expected years of life remaining Black Female Black Male Source: LaVeist (2005) Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers

  3. Highlights from the National Healthcare Qualities and Disparities Report, 2010 • Health care quality and access are suboptimal, especially for minorities and low income groups • Quality of care is improving for most Americans, but access to care is not • The narrowing of health disparities is minimal Urgent attention is needed for: • Disparities in preventive services and access to care • Residents of inner cities and rural areas • Nutritional counseling and obesity • Diabetes management • Cancer screening

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