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A Review Of Strategies To Increase Access To Oral Health Services, Breyanna Davis, Sara Plaspohl

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association

Background: Leading Health Indicators (LHIs), a subset of objectives for Healthy People 2020, were selected to communicate at-risk health issues and actions that can be taken to address them. Nationally, the number of children, adolescents, and adults who visited the dentist in the past year has decreased, suggesting that oral health continues to be a problem caused by barriers preventing access to oral health services. This review aimed to identify strategies to increase access to oral health services that will be useful in moving toward the LHI objectives.

Methods: Preliminary research was conducted on the LHI via the Healthy People …