Integrating Oral and General Health Through Health Literacy Practices: Proceedings of a Workshop

by Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, et al.

Oral health care and medical health care both seek to maintain and enhance human health and well-being. Yet, dentistry and primary care in the United States are largely separated and isolated from each other. Each has its own siloed systems for education, service delivery, financing, and policy oversight. The result has been duplication of effort, a cultural gap between the two professions, and lost opportunities for productive collaboration and better...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030949348X
• ISBN13: 9780309493482
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"