An interdisciplinary team of experts in quality improvement, oral health, epidemiology, and public health practice, was assembled to serve on PHF’s Oral Health Care Advisory Group to help identify and map primary and secondary drivers that can lead to increased use of oral health care, and develop the Population Health Driver Diagram to Increase Use of Oral Health Care.  PHF is currently seeking sponsors to help test and further refine the driver diagram for potential use in communities throughout the United States.

Materials for the meeting follow:

• Meeting agenda
• Project description
• Preliminary draft of the Population Health Driver Diagram to Increase Use of Oral Health Care
• Background information about PHF and the driver diagram approach to addressing population health challenges
• Documents about the Public Health Antibiotic Stewardship Driver Diagram and related Antibiotic Stewardship Program (an example of how PHF has used this driver diagram approach to address another population health challenge)
• Oral Health Care Advisory Group Participant List
• Other reference materials on oral health that you may be interested in reviewing:
• Advancing Oral Health in America (Institute of Medicine)
• Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration)
• Promoting and Enhancing the Oral Health of the Public: HHS Oral Health Initiative 2010 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
• The Role of Dental Hygienists in Providing Access to Oral Health Care (​National Governors Association)