This program creates new community-based residency programs or rural residency training tracks to increase the primary care physician workforce in rural communities.
We offer nursing grants and cooperative agreements. These funds support nursing education and practice. We support advanced nursing education programs for registered nurses preparing to become primary care nurse practitioners, primary care clinical nurse specialists, and nurse midwives.
Read the most recent ANEW funding notice. We support advanced nursing education programs for registered nurses RNs. These RNs become nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists, nurse administrators etc. Our funds increase the number of registered nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, and forensic nurses trained and certified to conduct sexual assault nurse examinations. We support programs that prepare new nurse practitioners NPs for primary care practice in community-based settings.
We prefer projects that benefit rural or other high-need groups of people. In June , we awarded 36 grants to entities in 24 states. Read the most recent NAT funding notice.
We fund programs that support academic, service, and continuing education projects. They enhance nursing education, improve the quality of patient care, increase nurse retention, and strengthen the nursing workforce. This includes the use of simulation-based technology.
This helps patient, family, and community health in rural and medically high-need areas. They practice in community-based primary care teams. The goal is to increase access to care. They emphasize chronic disease prevention and control, including mental health and substance use.
It targets undergraduate nursing students who are veterans and current primary care RNs. Read the most recent NFLP funding notice. We support projects that increase nursing education opportunities for individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds. This includes underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities among registered nurses. Read the most recent NWD funding notice. Our oral health programs support the oral health needs of people who need it most, including those in rural areas.
Oral Health Coordinating Committee. Funds increase the number of dental and dental hygiene faculty. Through loan repayment, the grant helps training programs attract and retain dental and dental hygiene faculty. The focus is on pediatric dentistry faculty supervising residents. We prepare general, pediatric, and public health dentists for practice. They lead new models of oral health care delivery. They do this by supporting innovative postdoctoral dental residency training programs.
Read the most recent PDD funding notice. Our funds go toward pediatric training for dentists and dental hygienists. This will improve access to oral health care for people with the most need, including in rural areas. We work to meet national, state, and local health care needs. We do this through our public health workforce grants and cooperative agreements. Find each region's Public Health Training Center. Read the most recent PHTC funding notice. CHWPTP will train community health workers and paraprofessionals to provide public health emergency response and address the public health needs of underserved communities.
Subscribe to receive notifications when the application cycle opens. This program will support organizations to develop scholarship programs that incentivize individuals to pursue careers in public health. The SLRP provides cost-sharing grants to states and territories. This allows you to operate your own loan repayment programs.
Get detailed requirements and find out how to apply. Track your grant application. Breadcrumb Home Funding Apply for a Grant. Apply for a Grant. Individuals can't apply for our grants. Our grants support: Substance abuse prevention and treatment services Combined primary and behavioral health care services to groups of people in rural or high-need areas.
Am I eligible to apply? Who received recent awards? The GPE Program prepares and grows the doctoral health psychology workforce. How can I contact you? Email Andrea G. Battle, Ph. Call: Wilkerson Call: Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Training This program provides evidence-based planning, development and training in health profession activities in order reduce burnout and promote resiliency among the workforce.
Problems with limited health literacy can be even worse for older adults, individuals with limited education, and the poor. Plain writing and simple verbal communication are essential when initiating individual and -community-wide strategies. Plain writing concepts, principles, policies, and practices should be infused at all levels of health management and service delivery to create oral health-literate organizations. At the same time, all health professionals are encouraged to participate in training opportunities to learn skills, strategies, and tools to communicate effectively with patients; share information about oral health issues with other health professionals; and develop health messages and patient education materials.
Oral health information should be integrated into the health record and be readily available to health providers. The benefits of combining health IT tools and effective health communication are expected to influence quality and safety in many health-care areas, including the efficiency and delivery of health care, improved public health information infrastructure, facilitation of clinical and consumer decision making, and improvement of health skills and knowledge.
Enhance data value by making data easier to access and use for public health decision making through the development of standardized oral health measures and advancement of surveillance. Improve the oral health literacy of health professionals through the use of evidence-based methods.
Improve the oral health literacy of patients and families by developing and promoting clear and consistent oral health messaging to health-care providers and the public. Integrate dental, medical, and behavioral health information into electronic health records. ACF presents oral health information, including parental engagement in oral health and oral health literacy at national, state, and regional meetings. Strategy 4-D. ACL undertakes oral health literacy and education efforts to help older adults, caregivers, communities, and health-care professionals to more successfully navigate the oral health-care system.
Strategy 4-B. CDC builds public awareness of the immediate health damage caused by smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke and encourages smokers to quit through CDC's Tips from Former Smokers campaign. CDC also links individuals and health-care providers, including dental professionals, with resources to help patients quit.
Strategy 4-C. CMS works to improve the collection and analysis of data and quality measures related to the delivery of Medicaid and CHIP oral health services, annually reports state progress on the oral health quality measures in the child core set of health-care quality measures, applies a mandatory quality-assurance process to the annual submission by states of CMS dental data, and upgrades the CMS Form instructions to be more specific to support more uniform reporting across states.
CMS also supports the validation of two dental measures sealants and continuity of care for inclusion in the Meaningful Use Phase 3 for electronic health records, and the enhancement of the dental treatment quality measure in the child core set of quality measures through the Pediatric Quality Measures Program.
Strategy 4-A. CMS develops and promotes free oral health education materials, in English and Spanish, targeted to parents and pregnant women. FDA ensures the public has science-based information on drugs, devices, and foods to improve oral health; utilizes multimedia consumer information to provide timely updates to the general public and to specific audiences e. HRSA helps states and communities to address public oral health issues; and develops, updates, and disseminates tools, materials, and resources to promote oral health for the public and health professionals.
IHS establishes and promotes initiatives on oral health literacy and the integration of oral health into primary care. NIH evaluates the effectiveness of approaches to improve health literacy, supports studies to understand the basis of health disparities and inequalities, develops and tests interventions tailored and targeted to underserved populations, supports basic research to understand both the mechanisms of behavior change and the influence of behavioral and social factors on oral health, disseminates study findings, and develops culturally appropriate materials.
Margo R. Donald C. Edwin M. Agnes H. Richard J. Timothy L. The tools are designed to assist professionals to improve communication with their patients in areas ranging from scheduling of future appointments to discussion of diagnosis and treatment to follow-up appointments. OMH also incorporates information about enrollment in state and federal health insurance Marketplaces, options for policies that can be purchased in the Marketplaces, and information about children's oral health coverage into broader health education and promotion activities.
BOP develops and promotes virtual Web-based trainings and other electronic messages focused on the importance of health literacy. The trainings offer tools and techniques to assist providers in communicating verbal and written oral health information to patients based on plain writing and speaking. BOP also provides oral health training to health-care professionals who transition inmates from incarceration into the community.
BOP also assesses patients' comprehension of health messages and develops metrics or uses established metrics to survey the patient population. Strategy 4-D BOP standardizes and improves the usability of electronic dental records, refines electronic dental records for greater interoperability, and establishes a uniform dental diagnostic code set.
Strategy 4-E. IHSC develops oral health surveillance to quantify the prevalence of complex dental needs within the IHSC immigration population by collecting and applying data from electronic medical records. IHSC also utilizes patient questionnaires to assess and evaluate patient comprehension and oral health literacy. IHSC maintains and tracks IHSC electronic medical record and electronic dental record software programs, and developed initiatives to standardize dental diagnosis codes, templates, and forms.
Coast Guard integrates electronic dental and medical records, and implements and monitors the use of Epic, electronic medical record software used in clinics. All agencies promote professional evidence-based verbal communication methods, such as those in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ Universal Precautions Toolkit, to improve the oral communication skills of health professionals.
Biomedical and behavioral research provides knowledge to support the ever-evolving practice of health care. This scientific base requires a broad array of research strategies to understand the fundamental causes of diseases and to transform that knowledge into a lifetime of better health for people everywhere. Most dental, oral, and craniofacial conditions arise from complex interactions of biological, behavioral, environmental, and higher systems-level factors. Thus, oral health-related research must involve a number of approaches, including basic research, intervention studies, behavioral science and public health research, population-health studies, clinical trials, and community-based studies.
Research is needed to support an array of methods to address clinical questions, and increased efforts are needed to develop technologies for clinical risk assessment and diagnosis.
Public-private partnerships are essential to understanding the causes and pathological processes of oral diseases and to enhance more rapid development of interventions. Communities and organizations must be able to benefit from scientific advances, which may contribute to changes in the reimbursement and delivery of services as well as enhance knowledge of risk factors.
Given the broad reach of the federal government's oral health efforts and the increasing integration of oral health core clinical competencies across disciplines, the opportunity to develop and disseminate policies supportive of change is substantial. Other areas that are receiving greater visibility are the training of oral health professionals to provide language-appropriate and culturally competent care for diverse populations and trauma-informed care for abused or trafficked populations.
Collaboration between government and private-sector partners can leverage the resources needed to address these important policy issues. Expand applied research approaches, including behavioral, clinical, and population-based studies; practice-based research; and health services research to improve oral health.
Support research and activities that examine the influence of health-care system organization, reimbursement, and policies on the provision of oral health care, including fostering government and private-sector collaboration. Address disparities in oral health through research that fosters engagement of individuals, families, and communities in developing and sharing solutions and behaviors to meet their unique needs.
Develop policy approaches that support state Medicaid and CHIP to move from paying for volume to purchasing value, and from treating disease to preventing disease. Evaluate the impact of policy on access to care, oral health services, and quality. AHRQ encourages and supports intramural and extramural research and disseminates innovations in health-care delivery; collects information on oral health-care needs, access, and expenditures; makes data available to researchers external to the federal government; and funds extramural research on oral health-care expenditures, insurance coverage, and access to care.
Strategy 5-A. AHRQ also aims to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and efficacy of health care for all American citizens, and to improve health-care outcomes by encouraging the use of evidence to make informed health-care decisions. Strategy 5-D. CDC enhances national oral health surveillance efforts by developing measures for use in surveillance of periodontal disease at the state and local levels; enhances surveillance of dental caries, periodontal disease, dental fluorosis, and fluoride intake; and supports the oral health components of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
CDC also enhances state oral health surveillance efforts, provides funding to states through grants, and works with partners to assess and expand the capacity of state health departments to implement oral health surveillance.
CDC enhances the National Oral Health Surveillance System used for state oral health surveillance, including implementing new indicators and transitioning to a new platform that provides enhanced capabilities and ease of use.
CDC promotes best practices and establishes guidelines for clinicians and public health practitioners on sealant programs, infection control, and community water fluoridation. CMS also identifies opportunities to work with state Medicaid and CHIP agencies to promote and reimburse for risk assessment, evidence-based prevention, and chronic disease-management approaches to address early childhood caries. Strategy 5-E. FDA aims to 1 reduce the time needed to bring safe and effective medical devices to the U.
Strategy 5-A FDA also works to reduce the public health burden from tobacco-related disease and death by regulating the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products. HRSA fosters an increase in the oral health competency of primary care clinicians and evaluates the impact on improving the oral health of populations in need. HRSA also engages associations, professional organizations, and accrediting bodies to increase the oral health competency of non-dental primary care clinicians through changes in licensure examinations, policies related to reimbursement, and evaluation of pilot and demonstration projects.
IHS works to increase access to and sharing of data and support for epidemiology programs at the state, local, and tribal government levels, and partners with urban Indian organizations to resolve oral health disparities. IHS also aims to improve surveillance and epidemiologic capacity, enhance the ability to detect emerging threats, and monitor ongoing health issues and risk factors.
Strategy 5-C. NIH works to expand intervention studies aimed at preventing and managing oral infections and complex diseases, and improve oral health through clinical trials, practice-based research, and studies that provide scientific evidence to establish or change standards of care or change health-care policy.
NIH also leverages research to develop effective and personalized disease-management strategies, enhance patient-provider communication, partner with public and private organizations, and enable precise and personalized oral health care. NIH supports oral health disparities research to better understand health disparities and inequalities and supports basic research to understand both the mechanisms of behavior change and the influence of behavioral and social factors on oral health.
NIH develops and tests interventions that are designed to facilitate behavior change among families, communities, and providers serving underserved populations, and disseminates findings that can be used to translate the research into practice and action for these communities.
The two organizations cosponsor a scientific meeting, Innovations in the Prevention and Treatment of Early Childhood Caries, to advance research and disseminate current and emerging approaches for the prevention, treatment, and impact on the prevalence of early childhood caries. The agencies focus on the intimate partner violence screening and counseling preventive benefit under the Affordable Care Act and opportunities to train emerging dentists.
Strategy 5-B. HRSA, NIH, and CDC also collaborate to improve the dissemination of evidence-based oral health-care information to health-care providers and the public, and engage others to help develop and implement solutions to improve overall health and well-being.
This report was approved by Secretary Sylvia Burwell on July 6, The OHCC is charged with providing direction and coordinating a broad spectrum of oral health policy, research, and programs within USPHS, across federal agencies, and between the public and private sectors. Other contributing federal agencies included the Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.
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Barriers to oral health care One of the greatest barriers to oral health care is a lack of dental services. Healthy People Healthy People objectives are science-based, measurable, year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. The Affordable Care Act and oral health The Affordable Care Act recognizes the integral role of oral health services and includes provisions that address important improvements to increase oral health coverage, access, workforce and infrastructure development, surveillance, and public education.
Guiding principles The Framework is grounded in three guiding principles: Oral disease is a health and health-care problem and not solely a dental problem; Long-term visibility of oral health in program and policy planning requires a comprehensive, deliberate, and innovative approach; and HHS is a critical part of a larger oral health enterprise poised to implement the Framework's goals through collaborative efforts to create collective impact.
The five overarching goals are: Integrate oral health and primary health care. Prevent disease and promote oral health. Increase access to oral health care and eliminate disparities. Increase the dissemination of oral health information and improve health literacy.
Advance oral health in public policy and research. Below each goal is a set of strategies and actions. Strategies for goal 1 1-A.
Strategy 1-B HRSA supports and encourages health center organizations to engage in practice transformation and achieve patient-centered medical home certification, and promotes patient-centered medical-dental home professional training and practice described in the recommendations from the report issued by the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry to the HHS Secretary and Congress.
Strategies for goal 2 2-A. Federal partners Administration for Community Living. Multiagency efforts. Strategy 2-A Multiagency efforts by CDC, CMS, and HRSA also encourage states to incorporate oral health innovations in their efforts to redesign their health-care delivery systems, support payers and funders to design and implement payment and funding approaches that favor prevention and better health outcomes, and encourage cooperation between payers and funders to magnify the effects of available dollars.
Strategy 2-B CDC and HRSA coordinate program oversight and monitoring of related oral health programs, increase communication and knowledge sharing between project officers, and hold regularly scheduled discussions across agencies.
Strategy 2-C CDC, CMS, and HRSA work together to 1 reduce ECC, such as tooth decay in children younger than 6 years of age; 2 invest in projects seeking to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of risk-based prevention and disease-management approaches to ECC; 3 support the dissemination of results from privately and publicly funded pilot projects on risk-based prevention and chronic disease-management approaches to ECC; and 4 identify opportunities to work with state Medicaid and CHIP agencies to create options for new payment methodologies for risk-based prevention and chronic disease-management approaches to ECC.
Strategies for goal 3 3-A. Promote health professionals' training in cultural competency. Align dental homes and oral health services for children.
Strategy 3-F Head Start regional offices use and analyze data to identify Head Start grantees and provide technical assistance to identify strategies for establishing dental homes for enrolled children in low performing states. Strategy 3-B HRSA works to increase the dental workforce through various HRSA-supported programs by providing support for dental workforce development, including training programs in general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, dental hygiene, and dental public health, to increase access to care, as well as through State Oral Health Workforce grants, loan repayment, and scholarship programs.
Office for Civil Rights. Strategy 3-F HRSA and ACF implement the Interagency Memorandum of Understanding for Improving Oral Health for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Children and Their Families by coordinating resources, aligning policies, fostering stronger working relationships, and ensuring that quality, culturally competent, and comprehensive oral and other primary health-care services are available in each state where Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs and community health centers coexist.
Strategy 3-H CDC and NIH collect and make oral health data publicly available, maintain oral health datasets for public use, and provide analysis on selected datasets related to state and national indicators. Assess the health literacy environment of patient care settings.
Federal partners ACF. Strategy 4-A CMS develops and promotes free oral health education materials, in English and Spanish, targeted to parents and pregnant women. Bureau of Prisons BOP. Strategy 4-B BOP also assesses patients' comprehension of health messages and develops metrics or uses established metrics to survey the patient population.
Purpose : Targets individuals and groups regarding the relationship between oral and systemic health, risk factors for oral health disorders, effect of nutrition on oral health, and preventive measures appropriate to reduce risk for individuals and populations. Purpose : Shares responsibility and collaboration among health care professionals in the care of patients and populations with, or at risk of, oral disorders to ensure optimal health results.
HRSA bureaus and offices support a variety of programs, activities, and initiatives that improve oral health. Oral Health Workforce Development Programs help build and train the oral health workforce, improving access to quality oral healthcare for those most in need.
HRSA's Health Center program increases access to quality primary health care services, including oral health, for medically underserved populations. Most grantees also provide dental services either on-site or by paid referral. Skip to main content. Learn more ». Oral Health Oral health is an integral part of overall health. Risk Assessment Purpose : Identifies factors that impact oral health and overall health.
Competencies : Conduct patient-specific, oral health risk assessments on all patients. Identify patient-specific conditions and medical treatments that impact oral health.
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