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Integrating primary oral health care into primary care. 1993

R E Isman

Dental Health Section, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento 94234-7320.

Despite increasing national attention and emphasis on primary health care, there has been little impetus to define or specify the content of primary oral health care. This paper defines primary oral health care and the scope of services it includes, using an adaptation of a Health Resources and Services Administration definition of primary health care and its attributes as its model. The proposed scope of services encompassed by primary oral health care is a set of basic dental services used by the Indian Health Service. Policy recommendations are presented to improve the integration of primary oral health services with primary health care and primary health care delivery.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011320	Primary Health Care	Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. (JAMA 1995;273(3):192)	Primary Care,Primary Healthcare,Care, Primary,Care, Primary Health,Health Care, Primary,Healthcare, Primary
D003190	Comprehensive Dental Care	Providing for the full range of dental health services for diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation of patients.	Care, Comprehensive Dental,Dental Care, Comprehensive
D003729	Dental Care	The total of dental diagnostic, preventive, and restorative services provided to meet the needs of a patient (from Illustrated Dictionary of Dentistry, 1982).	Care, Dental
D006291	Health Policy	Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.	Health Care Policies,Health Policies,Healthcare Policy,National Health Policy,Care Policies, Health,Health Care Policy,Health Policy, National,Healthcare Policies,National Health Policies,Policies, Health,Policies, Health Care,Policies, Healthcare,Policy, Health,Policy, Health Care,Policy, Healthcare
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D018166	Health Care Reform	Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.	Healthcare Reform,Health Care Reforms,Healthcare Reforms,Reform, Health Care,Reform, Healthcare,Reforms, Health Care,Reforms, Healthcare