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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2011. Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13116.
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Appendix A

Acronyms

AAP American Academy of Pediatrics
AAPA American Academy of Physician Assistants
AAPD American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
ABCD Access to Baby and Child Dentistry
ACA Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
ACF Administration for Children and Families
ACGME Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
ADA American Dental Association
ADHA American Dental Hygienists’ Association
ADHP advanced dental hygiene practitioner
ADT Minnesota advanced dental therapist
AGD Academy of General Dentistry
AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AI/AN American Indians and Alaska Natives
APHA American Public Health Association
ARC-PA Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant
ASTDD Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors

BCBSMA Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics

CAD coronary artery disease
CADPP Critical Access Dental Payment Program
CDA certified dental assistant
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2011. Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13116.
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CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDHC community dental health coordinator
CDT certified dental technician
CHC community health center
CHIP Children’s Health Insurance Program
CHIPRA Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

CODA Commission on Dental Accreditation
DHAT dental health aide therapist
DDS Doctor of Dental Surgery
DGME direct Graduate Medical Education
DMD Doctor of Dental Medicine
DT Minnesota dental therapist

ECC early childhood caries
ED (hospital) emergency department
EFDA expanded function dental assistant
EPSDT Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment

FEHBP Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
FPL federal poverty level
FQHC Federally Qualified Health Center
FTC Federal Trade Commission

GAMC General Assistance Medical Care
GAO U.S. Government Accountability Office
GME Graduate Medical Education

HHS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HKD Healthy Kids Dental
HPSA Health Professional Shortage Area
HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration

IHS Indian Health Service
LME indirect medical education

IOM Institute of Medicine

LHD local health department
LTC long-term care
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2011. Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13116.
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MCH Maternal and Child Health
MCHB Maternal and Child Health Bureau
MEPS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
MHCP Minnesota Health Care Program
MOM Missions of Mercy

NCHS National Center for Health Statistics
NHANES National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
NHIS National Health Interview Survey
NHSC National Health Service Corps
NIDCR National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
NIH National Institutes of Health
NOHSS National Oral Health Surveillance System
NP nurse practitioner
NRC National Research Council

OHS Office of Head Start
OIG Office of the Inspector General

PA physician assistant
PGY-1 Postgraduate Year One

RDHAP registered dental hygienist in alternative practice

SBHC school-based health center
SHCN special health care needs
SNODENT Systematized Nomenclature of Dentistry
SODM School of Dental Medicine at East Carolina University
SPRANS Special Projects of Regional and National Significance
STFM Society of Teachers in Family Medicine

URM underrepresented minority
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USPHS U.S. Public Health Service
USPSTF U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

VA U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

WDOH Washington Department of Health
WDSHS Washington Department of Social and Health Services
WHO World Health Organization
WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2011. Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13116.
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Access to oral health care is essential to promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being, yet only half of the population visits a dentist each year. Poor and minority children are less likely to have access to oral health care than are their nonpoor and nonminority peers. Older adults, people who live in rural areas, and disabled individuals, uniformly confront access barriers, regardless of their financial resources. The consequences of these disparities in access to oral health care can lead to a number of conditions including malnutrition, childhood speech problems, infections, diabetes, heart disease, and premature births.

Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations examines the scope and consequences of inadequate access to oral health services in the United States and recommends ways to combat the economic, structural, geographic, and cultural factors that prevent access to regular, quality care. The report suggests changing funding and reimbursement for dental care; expanding the oral health work force by training doctors, nurses, and other nondental professionals to recognize risk for oral diseases; and revamping regulatory, educational, and administrative practices. It also recommends changes to incorporate oral health care into overall health care. These recommendations support the creation of a diverse workforce that is competent, compensated, and authorized to serve vulnerable and underserved populations across the life cycle.

The recommendations provided in Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations will help direct the efforts of federal, state, and local government agencies; policy makers; health professionals in all fields; private and public health organizations; licensing and accreditation bodies; educational institutions; health care researchers; and philanthropic and advocacy organizations.

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