Effectiveness on Early Childhood Caries of an Oral Health Promotion Program for Medical Providers.

Objectives: To assess an oral health promotion (OHP) intervention for medical providers' impact on early childhood caries (ECC).

Methods: We implemented a quasiexperimental OHP intervention in 8 federally qualified health centers that trained medical providers on ECC risk assessment, oral examination and instruction, dental referral, and fluoride varnish applications (FVAs). We measured OHP delivery by FVA count at medical visits.

Impact of an interprofessional oral health education program on health care professional and practice behaviors: a RE-AIM analysis.

Background: Early childhood caries is the most common chronic childhood condition and largely preventable. Access to oral health preventive services (OHPS) for children at risk for caries is suboptimal and could be expanded if they were provided by non-dental professionals. Many state Medicaid programs in the USA now reimburse non-dental professionals for OHPS but require that they receive oral health education (OHE) to be reimbursed.

Provider attitudes toward public-private collaboration to improve immunization reminder/recall: a mixed-methods study.

Objective: To assess primary care providers' current reminder/recall practices, preferences for collaboration with health departments in reminder/recall efforts, attitudes toward practice-based and population-based reminder/recall, and experiences with a population-based reminder/recall intervention.

Methods: Providers responsible for making decisions about immunization delivery at all primary care practices that participate in the Colorado Immunization Information System were surveyed. Data collection was preceded by an intervention in which half of 14 counties received a population-based reminder/recall intervention conducted by the health department.