A National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health - A Directory of Selected DHHS Initiatives
Updated as of October 25, 2004
Background and Purposes
An inventory of Federal initiatives related to various components of A National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health has been developed. The purposes of this Federal Inventory are: 1) to aid in communicating and partnering across agencies and with the public and with non-federal agencies to identify opportunities for planning at the Federal level; 2) to identify gaps and opportunities at the federal level for planning purposes; 3) to provide non-federal partners with information on selected programs and contacts. The inventory includes projects and programs supported by the following agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); Indian Health Service (IHS); and National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), NIH. We plan to update this list periodically and to add projects from other agencies in the future.
The point of contact for all activities related to the Federal Directory is Dr. James Lipton. Please contact him at (301) 594-4866 or James_Lipton@nih.gov about any questions related to the inventory in general.
Procedure
Representatives from selected Agencies that had programs with immediate relevance to A National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health were requested to provide highlights of their programs using a two-part inventory form. Information provided in Part I included the title and a brief description of the initiative; contact person, telephone number and e-mail address; collaborating organizations; status of activity (on-going or under development); start date and end date. In part II, an indication was provided by the agency representative for the specific coded component of the National Call to Action. Click on the highlighted phrase to see the entire set of codes.
Results
The Federal Initiatives Directory represents a summary of the 66 projects submitted by the DHHS agencies. For each, you will find the sponsoring agency (column 1), initiative ID number (column 2), Part I - title of the initiative (column 3), Part II - relevant Call to Action codes addressed by the project (columns 4 – 19), with a “1” indicating that initiative addressed the specific code, and federal or non-federal organizations collaborating in the initiative (column 20). At the bottom of the table is listed the total number of initiatives addressing each code and the percent of total initiatives that address the particular code.
Click on any Agency to access its webpage.
Click on Part I for a brief description of the project.
Click on the following Abbreviation list for acronyms of Collaborating Organizations and HRSA components: Abbreviation List