The Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) encourages state Title V programs to partner with families, consumer groups, and others to advance their chosen National Performance Measures (NPMs). As the MCHB-funded national center for health insurance and financing of care, the Catalyst Center researches and disseminates state-level financing strategies aimed at improving health insurance coverage for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). Our work aligns with NPM #15: “Adequate Insurance Coverage: percent of children ages 0 through 17 who are adequately insured.” This policy brief describes Title V, family leader organization, and Medicaid partnerships that can help states make progress on improving access to adequate insurance for CYSHCN.
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Digital Story: Changing Lives Through Good Oral Health
This digital story demonstrates how access to oral health care improved the quality of life of three people living with HIV.
Changing Lives Through Good HIV Oral Health from HDWG BUSPH on Vimeo.
SPNS IHIP Oral Health Webinar. “Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body”
This Webinar provides an overview of common oral health barriers for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and the importance of overcoming these barriers. It will also share some of the ways HRSA has helped link PLWHA to oral health care, including the SPNS Oral Health Initiative.
Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body is webinar #1 in a series titled Innovations in Oral Health Care that shares findings from the SPNS Oral Health Initiative. Slides and webinar recordings for the other two webinars in the series are available on the HRSA iHiP (Integrating HIV Innovative Practices) website:
Expanding Access to Oral Health Services for People Living with HIV/AIDS: Lessons Learned
Lessons learned on developing oral health services for people living with HIV/AIDS, based upon experiences of a SPNS national research and evaluation demonstration project.
If you build it, will they come? And if they come, will they stay? Lessons learned in engaging and retaining people living with HIV/AIDS in oral health care
Increasing Access to Oral Health Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS: The role of dental case managers, patient navigators and outreach workers
Roles of dental case managers and other oral health staff in recruiting, engaging, and retaining patients in oral and other HIV/AIDS care through scheduling, transportation support, building relationships, and other techniques.
A typology of models for expanding access to oral health care services for people living with HIV
This article appeared in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, May 11, 2011. It describes a typology of program models for expanding access to dental services for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). These programs serve communities with limited access and high unmet need for oral healthcare, such as rural areas, low-income and racial/ethnic minorities.
Patient Perspectives on improving oral health care practices among people living with HIV
Access to Oral Health Care and Self-Reported Health Status Among Low-Income Adults Living with HIV/AIDS
Correlates of Unmet Dental Care Need among HIV-Positive Persons since Being Diagnosed with HIV
This article appeared in Public Health Reports 2012 Supplement 2. It describes a study in which the characteristics of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) who reported unmet oral health needs since testing positive were analyzed and compared to characteristics of people reporting no unmet health needs. Barriers to accessing oral health care for PLWHA were also identified.