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Session: How Can We Make Oral Health a Much Higher National Priority: Power, Policies and Politics!!
3425.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
How Can We Make Oral Health a Much Higher National Priority: Power, Policies and Politics!!
The purpose of this panel discussion is to determine how oral health can be made a much higher national priority in our country. What is the role of health care reform and oral health? What is the role of organized dentistry, the dental public health community and Congress?
Learning Objectives: 1. To understand the importance of working together for health care reform and oral health 2. To understand what is needed to make oral health a national priority 3. To determine the role of organized dentistry, the public health community and advocacy groups
Panelist(s):William Prentice, JD MGA
Stephen B. Corbin, DDS, MPH
Caya Lewis
Organizer(s):Myron Allukian, DDS, MPH
Moderator(s):Myron Allukian, DDS, MPH
4:30 PM   How can we make oral health a much higher national priority: Power, policies and politics!!
Stephen B. Corbin, DDS, MPH
5:00 PMHealth Care Reform: NOW Is the Time
Erik Olsen
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Oral Health
Endorsed by:APHA; Gerontological Health; Health Administration; Latino Caucus; Medical Care; Socialist Caucus

The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA