Oral Health: An Important Component of Overall Health and Wellbeing
As a CHW, what can you do to support the oral health of the individuals you serve?
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Course Information
- Audience: Community health workers (or similar roles), patient navigators, health educators
- Format: Webinar
- Date/Time: Thursday, May 18th 2023 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST.
- Price: Free
- Length: 1 hour
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 0. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: PM1131137_05182023.If you are not seeking a CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the post-test and evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course.
- Competencies: Community Partnership Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings:
MCD Global Health Chronic Conditions Trainings: Free to Vermont Community Health Workers until June 30, 2023:
To learn more or enroll, visit: https://chwtraining.mcdph.org
Smiles for Life:
https://www.nephtc.org/mod/url/view.php?id=4472 - Pre-requisites: None
- Supplemental Materials: PowerPoint
About this Webinar
Oral health is an essential part of overall health and wellbeing. Poor oral health has a negative impact on quality of life and is linked to chronic conditions, including stroke, heart and lung disease, and diabetes. In addition, poor oral health can be stigmatizing, which negatively affects mental health and may contribute toward socioeconomic disparities. Community health workers are well poised to support oral health education and access to care in their roles. Join this webinar to learn about how CHWs can help improve the oral health of people they serve.
What you'll learn
At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the relationship between oral health and overall health.
- List oral health resources available for individuals served by CHW in Vermont.
- Explore opportunities to integrate oral health care into CHW role.
Subject Matter Experts
Robin Miller
RDH, MPH
Debora Teixeira
Burt Edelstein
Robin Miller, RDH, MPH, has been employed by the Vermont Department of Health’s Office of Oral Health since 1998. She began her career with the State as a Dental Health Educator and was promoted to Oral Health Director in 2015. Robin serves as Secretary on the Executive Board of the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors and is the chairperson of the ASTDD’s Basic Screening Survey Community of Practice. In addition to her work with ASTDD, she is a former board member and current member of the Vermont Public Health Association and was the 2016 recipient of the VT Dental Hygienists’ Association Outstanding Dental Hygienist award.
Debora Teixeira received a degree in Dentistry from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a Master of Education focusing on Adult Education and Public Health from the University of Vermont. Prior to relocating to the United States, she worked for 12 years as a Public Health Dentist for the São Paulo State Health Department, providing dental care and oral health education primarily to underserved children and adults in community health centers and public schools. In addition, Debora has worked in private practice and taught Oral Diagnosis to first-year dental students. Currently, Debora works for the Vermont Department of Health, where she serves as the Oral Health Systems Administrator and as the 802 Smiles Network of School Dental Health Programs Coordinator.
Burton L. Edelstein DDS MPH, Columbia University Professor Emeritus of dentistry and public health, is a pediatric dentist who has dedicated his clinical, research, teaching, and advocacy career to improving the oral health of socially disadvantaged children. Edelstein practiced in Connecticut for 21 years before engaging full time in pediatric oral health policy as Congressional Health Aide to the US Senate Minority Leader, Commissioner of the federal Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), Founder of the DC-based Children’s Dental Health Project, and Chair of Population Oral Health at Columbia. Since 2008, Edelstein and his team have been awarded over $9M to develop and test a novel pediatric dental caries prevention and disease management program called MySmileBuddy. The MySmileBuddy Program and its educational technology supports value-based care and interdisciplinary delivery models, addresses social determinants of health, builds on established cariology science and behavior-change theory, and holds promise to enhance oral health equity through early intervention and redistribution of resources. Edelstein is a graduate of SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Buffalo dental school, and the Harvard School of Public Health. He trained at SUNY Upstate Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. His work has been nationally recognized by associations of pediatric (AAPD) and public health dentistry (ASTDD, AAPHD, MSDA), dental students (ASDA), dental societies (ACD, ICD, CDS, CSDA), the dental research community (FNIDCR), foundations (Shils, NYSDAF, OHA) and educators (Maryland, Harvard, Columbia, ADEA).
Registration
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Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of award 2 UB6HP31685‐05‐00 “Public Health Training Centers.” The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.