Bay Area Nutrition & Physical Activity Collaborative (BANPAC), Kaiser Permanente, and Shape Up San Francisco developed a fact sheet on tap water available in English, Spanish and Chinese. You can download the bilingual fact sheets, links below, to share with your patients and your community.
May 16, Wednesday, is Rethink Your Drink Day, a statewide Day of Action in California to raise awareness about the health effects of sugary drinks and promote the benefits of drinking water.
Reducing sugary drinks consumption and promoting the drinking of tap water are key oral health messages. The Feeling Good Project is hosting a free event at Heart of the City Farmers' Market on May 16, Wednesday, 10am-1pm. Come join the fun if you are in the neighborhood! Read the first issue of our SF Dental Transformation Initiative newsletter here. You can also find our e-newsletter archive in the Resource section of this website.
The San Francisco Dental Transformation Initiative Local Dental Pilot Project is proud to be the co-host of the 4th Annual Children’s Oral Health Leadership forum that took place last Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at St Mary’s Cathedral's St Francis Hall.
The event was hosted by CavityFree SF Coalition, SFDPH, and UCSF. Other co-hosts of the event included: SF Health Network, Our Children Our Families Council, and SF Unified School District (SFUSD). Dr. Edward Chow, President of the San Francisco Health Commission opened the event and Hydra Mendoza-McDonnell, Deputy Chief of Staff for Education and Equity to Mayor Mark Farrell and President of the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education was keynote speaker at the event. This forum was an opportunity for SF community leaders to learn about the successes and opportunities for improving dental care for better overall health and a healthier SF. We shared San Francisco children’s oral health status updates, and discussed policy and system changes, and cross sector collaborations impacting children’s oral health locally, state and nation-wide. Oral health advocates represented by California Department of Public Health, SF DTI LDPP, NICOS Chinese Health Coalition, Our Children Our Families Council, San Francisco Dental Society, San Francisco State University, San Francisco Unified School District, and UCSF spoke on the panels of the event. The event ended with an appreciation for Cathi Fuller, long-time oral health champion and school nurse at the San Francisco Unified School District School Health Programs. SF DTI LDPP sincerely thanks all of the community stakeholders and participants for attending the forum and for their continued dedication in improving children’s oral health in San Francisco. California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS) has launched its Open Data Portal initiative to increase public access to non-confidential health and human services data to spark innovation, promote research and economic opportunities, engage public participation in government, increase transparency, and inform decision-making. You can access a variety of health and human services related datasets, including statewide dental datasets on California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal: https://data.chhs.ca.gov/. The California Oral Health Plan 2018-2028 is developed by the California Department of Public Health Oral Health Program and serves as a roadmap to identify priorities, short term, intermediate, and long term goals and objectives along with recommendations to address the burden of disease, increase access to oral health services for high risk populations, and to increase the oral health status of all Californians. Download the California Oral Health Plan. |
AuthorThe San Francisco Dental Transformation Initiative is a 4 year-long project funded by the CA Department of Health Care Services DTI QUARTERLY Newsletter ARCHIVEBLOG Archives
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