How A North Carolina Program Boosted Preventive Oral Health Services For Low-Income Children

Preventive services program: a model engaging volunteers to expand community-based oral health services for children.

PURPOSE This paper describes the Preventive Services Program (PSP), a community based oral health program model which engages volunteers to provide preventive services and education for underserved children in Missouri. In 2006, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services created a program for children designed to use a systems approach for population-based prevention of oral disease....

The North Carolina Cancer Control Program. Caring for uninsured and low-income patients with cancer.

Creating partnerships for improving oral health of low-income children.

Preventive care for children in low-income families: how well do Medicaid and state children's health insurance programs do?

OBJECTIVE Child health problems that are caused or exacerbated by health behaviors remain a leading cause of medical spending for children. We examined receipt of clinician advice by low-income children, comparing children who had public insurance with those who had private insurance, as well as with children who were uninsured for part or all of the year. METHODS We used children who were ag...

SCHS Studies NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Objectives: There is epidemiological evidence that reproductive factors and reproductive hormones are important in the incidence of breast cancer. Previous research has yielded consistent results on the effects of parity (previous births) and estrogen receptor (ER) status on women developing breast cancer. The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility and utility of a larger study wit...