Integrating Oral and General Health Through Health Literacy Practices Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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7 Reflections on the Workshop
7 Reflections on the Workshop
Pages 77-84
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: "Oral health is multifaceted and includes the ability to speak, smile, smell, taste, touch, chew, swallow, and convey a range of emotions through facial expressions with confidence and without pain, discomfort, and disease of the craniofacial complex." The definition emphasizes that oral health, like health in general, is multifaceted, and that maintaining health likewise requires a multifaceted approach. Vanessa Simonds, assistant professor of community health at Montana State University, observed that the importance of dental health to overall health makes a powerful case for integration.
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"Focus on the business case," he recommended. "Figure out how to present that to decision leaders in the states and in the health care industry." Nicole Holland, assistant professor and director of health communication, education, and promotion at the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, rephrased the idea of dental and general health care being responsible for integration to their being accountable for integration.
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Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, agreed that the comments about primary care physicians being overburdened resonated with him. "How do we create a coordinated care model that works in all areas?
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She noted that addressing these in a health-literate way can do much to promote the integration of health. Martinez, too, mentioned the need to address social determinants, "because if not, it's all for nothing." Robinson emphasized the need to reach out to populations that are not served by large health care organizations and provide them with care in community-based settings "where the kids are, where the families are." This idea appealed as well to Terry Davis, professor of medicine and pediatrics at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, who praised the idea of bringing oral health care to where children are and having this care delivered by a wide variety of professionals.
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She thought that a Medicare pilot project or demonstration project could help vulnerable people use the health care system in a way that leaves them more informed, "which is essential for having a value-based care system." Amanda Wilson, head of the National Network Coordinating Office at the National Library of Medicine, pointed to the critical role that health literacy can play in dealing with the "tsunami" of change posed by integration. However, the task of using literacy to advance integration is daunting, she added.
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Dillaha pointed out that health care providers struggle with communications between and within primary care centers. Health literacy can be a lever to put pressure on the system to integrate physical, behavioral, and oral health.
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It helped create champions who can remove barriers, "whatever they may be: economic, policy, educational, health literacy, or oral health literacy."
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