Sec. 4102 Oral Healthcare Prevention Activities
- Oral Health Infrastructure. The Secretary of Health and Human Services must “enter into cooperative agreements with State, territorial, and Indian tribes or tribal organizations…to establish oral health leadership and program guidance, oral health data collection and interpretation (including determinants of poor oral health among vulnerable populations), a multi dimensional delivery system for oral health, and to implement science-based programs (including dental sealants and community water fluoridation) to improve oral health.”267
Oral Health Surveillance Activities. The Secretary must “update and improve the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) as it relates to oral healthcare.” Such improvements include developing oral healthcare quality measures for use in PRAMS and requiring states to submit reports on their PRAMS activities every five years beginning no later than 2015.268 The Secretary must also “develop [and update every six years] oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance for inclusion in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.”269
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