tailieunhanh - The Cost of Delay State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children

In view of the potential health, development, and human rights implications of recent findings, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), launched an initiative to understand this problem better and to identify and propose solutions to it. One of the first activities of this initiative was to convene a meeting of experts bringing together the expertise from other relevant WHO Departments and that of experts from both developed and developing countries who have been active in this area (see list of participants and agenda of the. | THE PEW CENTER ON THE STATES The Cost of Delay State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children FEBRUARY 2010 The Pew Children s Dental Campaign works to promote policies that will help millions of children maintain healthy teeth get the care they need and come to school ready to learn. A special thanks to the . Kellogg Foundation and DentaQuest Foundation for their support and guidance. PEW CENTER ON THE STATES Susan K. Urahn managing director PEW CHILDREN S DENTAL CAMPAIGN Shelly Gehshan director Team Leaders Team Members Design and Publications Andrew Snyder Jill Antonishak Evan Potler Lori Grange Jane L. Breakell Carla Uriona Michele Mariani Vaughn Libby Doggett Melissa Maynard Nicole Dueffert Kil Huh Amy Katzel Lauren Lambert Molly Lyons Bill Maas Marko Mijic Morgan F. Shaw ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report benefited from the efforts and insights of external partners. We thank our colleagues at the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors and the National Academy for State Health Policy and Amos Deinard with the University of Minnesota for their expertise and assistance in gathering state data. We also thank Ralph Fuccillo and Michael Monopoli with the DentaQuest Foundation and Albert K. Yee with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for their guidance feedback and collaboration at critical stages in the project. We would like to thank our Pew colleagues Rebecca Alderfer Nancy Augustine Brendan Hill Natasha Kallay Ryan King Mia Mabanta Laurie Norris Kathy Patterson Aidan Russell Frederick Schecker and Stanford Turner for their feedback on the analysis. We thank Andrew McDonald for his assistance with communications and dissemination and Jennifer Peltak and Julia Hoppock for Web communications support. And we thank Christina Kent and Ellen Wert for assistance with writing and copy editing respectively. Finally our deepest thanks go to the individuals and families who shared their stories with us. For additional information on Pew and the Children s Dental .