Interprofessional practice (IPP) includes a group of individuals from different health care disciplines working and communicating with each other to enhance and support person-centered care. Rural Health Clinics and their communities face unique challenges that act as barriers to IPP.
This report provides State Offices of Rural Health and Rural Health Care Systems with information to initiate interprofessional oral health networks that integrate and coordinate person-centered oral health care in their communities.
You may also be interested in:
- Health Improvement Programs, a web page with information about CareQuest Institute’s initiatives to develop, test, and measure prevention-focused, person-centered health care strategies.
- MORE Care: An Evaluation of an Interprofessional Oral Heath Quality Improvement Initiative, this analysis, published in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, demonstrated that MORE Care is effective in creating a structure for integrating oral health care into primary care practices.
- The Interprofessional Oral Health Referral, a report that provides a framework to develop and implement interprofessional care coordination and address challenges to the referral process between dentistry and medicine.
