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The Health Resources and Services
Administration's mission is to improve and expand access to
quality health care for all. The Access Agency of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, HRSA assures the
availability of quality health care to low income, uninsured,
isolated, vulnerable and special needs populations and meets their
unique health care needs.
Centers of Excellence grants assist health
professions schools to support programs of excellence in health
professions education for minority individuals in allopathic and
osteopathic medicine, dentistry and pharmacy and graduate programs
in behavioral or mental health (clinical and counseling
psychology, clinical social work, marriage and family therapy).
COE strengthens the national capacity to train students from
minority groups that are under-represented in these health
professions and build a more diverse health care workforce.
Welcome to the Hispanic Center of Excellence of
the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine.
This initiative was developed to encourage and
inform minority and disadvantaged teenage students of educational
and career opportunities in health professions; and to assist
minority and disadvantaged students in planning and preparing for
post secondary education in the health care professions.
You will find everything you need on this Web site, including
visual aids and talking points.
The Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP)
strives to build diversity in the health professions by developing
a more competitive applicant pool. The program provides students
from disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to develop the
skills needed to successfully compete for admission to and
graduation from health professions schools, allied health
professions schools, graduate programs in behavioral and mental
health, and programs to train physician assistants.
The mission of the National Center for Cultural
Competence (NCCC) is to increase the capacity of health and mental
health programs to design implement, and evaluate culturally and
linguistically competent service delivery systems.
The
mission of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research (NIDCR) is to improve oral, dental and craniofacial
health through research, research training, and the dissemination
of health information.
Información en Español
The mission of the National Center
on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) is to promote
minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the
NIH effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities.
The intent of this Surgeon
General’s Report on Oral Health is to alert Americans to the full
meaning of oral health and its importance to general health and
well-being and ensure that health promotion and disease prevention
programs are enhanced. The report proposes solutions that entail
partnerships - government agencies and officials, private
industry, foundations, consumer groups, health professionals,
educators, and researchers - to coordinate and facilitate actions
based on a National Oral Health Plan.
Versión en Español
The Centre for Evidence-based Dentistry is an
independent body whose aim is to promote evidence-based dentistry
world-wide. The Centre was formed in early 1995. Following a
workshop on Evidence-based Dentistry held at Templeton College,
Oxford in December 1994.
A new website targeting dental educators
launched by the National Program Office of the Pipeline,
Profession and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education (Dental
Pipeline) program. This website will serve as the primary source
for dental schools seeking to improve oral health care access to
vulnerable populations and increase access to dental education for
underrepresented minority and low-income students.
This site is the archival site for the
conference "Dental Informatics and Dental Research: Making the
Connection" that was held on June 12-13, 2003, at the Natcher
Conference Center at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA. This conference
developed strategies on how biomedical informatics can most
productively contribute to the resolution of dental research
problems. The archival site contains the conference program, all
presentation abstracts and presentations, and links to the full
conference papers.
An interactive website, providing on-demand
education to highlight the importance and connection of oral
health to the overall health and well-being of older Americans, as
well as to draw attention to the fact that seniors citizens
nationwide are facing significant obstacles regarding access to
quality oral healthcare. Group rates are available for offices,
study groups, residency programs, or faculty who would like to use
the site as a teaching resource in dental curricula.
- Hispanic
Dental Association
The Mission of the Hispanic Dental Association is to
optimize the oral health of the Hispanic community.
- National Service-Learning
Clearinghouse
Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that
integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to
enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen
communities. The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC), a program
of Learn and Serve America, operates this website supporting the
service-learning efforts of schools, higher education institutions,
communities, and tribal nations. They offer timely information and
relevant resources, thousands of free online resources, the nation's
largest library of service-learning materials, national service-learning
listservs, and reference and technical assistance services.
- Community-Campus Partnerships for
Health
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a
nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between
communities and higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, it is a
growing network of over 1000 communities and campuses. CCPH has members
throughout the United States and increasingly the world who are
collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based
participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership
strategies.
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