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Abstract #158261

Amy B. Martin, DrPH, Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 220 Stoneridge Drive, Suite 204, Columbia, SC 29170, 803-251-6317, brocka@gwm.sc.edu and Christine Veschusio, Division of Oral Health, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, 2600 Bull Street, Mills-Jarrett Building, Columbia, SC 29201.

Contained in Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General (2000) is a framework for action that outlines three specific steps: (1) change public perceptions; (2) change policymakers' perceptions; and (3) change health providers' perceptions. The South Carolina State Oral Health Plan strives to address all three challenges through an integrated approach using advisors, key stakeholders, and empowered communities. The document has been developed at the leadership of the Division of Oral Health at South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, its Advisory Council and Coalition, and facilitated by an external evaluator at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health, Department of Health Services Policy and Management. The process used for its development is truly community-based and interactive, reflecting the plan's theoretical framework, PRECEDE/PROCEED. It addresses advocacy and policy, surveillance, social marketing, fluoridated water, workforce, chronic disease, and special populations. For each objective, there are corresponding references to historical documents and public health indicators. References to Healthy People 2010 and Title V National Performance Measures, where applicable, are provided for each objective. Relevant measurement information, such as existing baselines, the type of measure, and method of data collection are delineated for each objective.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify specific opportunities and partners for state oral health program and policy planning.
• Participants will be able to describe effective ways for evaluating state oral health plans.
• Participants will be able to describe a reliable process for engaging key stakeholders in oral health policy and program planning.
• Participants will be able to describe the anticipated and unanticipated benefits that result for community-driven oral health policy and program planning.

Keywords: Oral Health, Community-Based Public Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
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