Resources for Professionals

Access to Oral Health Care
Aboriginal Health
Associations
Early Childhood Caries
Evidence Based Practice
Fluorides
General Oral Health
Government
Health Communication
Health Promotion
Infection Control in Dentistry 
M.Sc./Dental Specialty Program: Dental Public Health In Canada
Research
School-age children
Seniors and Long-term Care Residents
Social Determinants of Health
Surviellance
Tobacco Cessation

Access to Oral Health Care

• Staying ahead of the curve: A unified oral public health program for Ontario?
• Oral Health Fast Facts
• Access and Care: Towards a National Oral Health Strategy (Presentations and Reports from Symposium)
• Access to Oral Health Services- The Stories and Actions in Two Cities (Ontario Health Promotion E-Bulletin) 
• A Report of the Toronto Dental Coalition (2001)
• Family Dental Health Scrapbook (2004).  Personal stories about accessing dental care and suggestions for advocacy and policy 
• The story of Jason Jones - Toronto Star videos and articles on access to dental care 
• Access to Care Fund, University of Toronto Video 
• Resolutions on access to care and other topics can be found on Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) website
• Canada's Oral Health Report Card: A call to action by the CDHA 
• Putting Our Money Where Our Mouth is: The Future of Dental Care in Canada. April 1, 2011, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 
• Declaration for Oral Health for Children, World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) Declaration, May, 2013
• Oral Health Care for Children, Canadian Paediatric Society Position Statement, January 2013

Aboriginal Health

• Our Time Our Health 
• Chiefs of Ontario 
• Children's Oral Health Initiative (COHI) 
• Canadian Pediatric Society Article on ECC in Indigenous Communities
• AAP Position Statement on ECC in Indigenous Communities
• AAP Article on ECC in Indigenous Communities
• Healthy Teeth, Healthy Lives: Inuit Oral Health Action Plan 2013

Associations

• American Association of Public Health Dentistry 
• Canadian Academy of Pediatric Dentistry 
• Canadian Dental Assistants Association 
• Canadian Dental Association
• Canadian Dental Hygienists Association
• Canadian Denturists Association
• Canadian Public Health Association
• Ontario Association of Public Health Dentistry 

Early Childhood Caries

• Health Canada-Oral Care for children 
• Lift the Lip 
• Winnipeg Regional Health Authority ECC Resources 
• Oral Health and the Aboriginal Child Knowledge Transfer 
• Early Childhood Dental Disease— What's in a Name (article)  

Evidence Based Practice

• Center for Evidence Based Dentistry 
• Center for Health Evidence 
• The Cochrane Collaboration 
• Canadian Best Practice Portal 
• The Canadian Best Practices Portal has an excellent list of Systematic Review websites. Click here to view the list 
• US National Library of Medicine (Medline)  

Fluorides 

• Chief Public Health Officer of Canada Message on Water Fluoridation (English)
• Chief Public Health Officer of Canada Message on Water Fluoridation (French)
• CAPHD recommends community water fluoridation
• Findings and Recommendations of the Fluoride Expert Panel (Health Canada 2007)
• Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council’s Systematic Review on Fluoridation
• CPHA Recognizes Fluoridation as one of the 12 Great Achievements in Public Health
• Fluoride and Health (Health Canada 2010)  
• University of York- Systematic Review on Water Fluoridation 
• Irish Water Fluoridation Report 
• Center of Disease Control and Prevention: Community Water Fluoridation 
• Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) press release and fact sheet supporting community water fluoridation
• Water Fluoridation Question & Answer (2012)

General Oral Health

• Oral Health Information
• Caring for your teeth and mouth 
• Information on oral diseases 
• Free publication available to order: "Smile: Healthy Teeth, Healthy Body" (Health Canada, 2009) 

Government

• Office of the Chief Dental Officer of Canada 
• Federal Provincial Territorial Dental Working Group 
• Public Health Agency of Canada 
• World Health Organization- Oral Health 
• Statistics Canada 
• Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) 
• First Nation Inuit Health Branch- Health Canada 
• National Aboriginal Health Organization  

Health Communication

• The Health Communication Unit Resources and Information 

Health Promotion

• Quebec's National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy- Learn about public policy including regular newsletters, presentations and multimedia.   

Infection Control in Dentistry 

• Center for Disease Control  

M.Sc./Dental Specialty Program: Dental Public Health In Canada

• University of Toronto 

Research

• Canadian Institute of Health Research 
• Masters Award, Canadian Foundation for Dental Hygiene Research and Education  

School-age children

• Alberta Health Services- Teacher Resource Manual 
• Alberta Health Services- Rethink Your Drink 
• Ontario Association of Public Health Dentistry's resources to support the curriculum for elementary school students.

Seniors and Long-term Care Residents

• University of Manitoba-Fact Sheets and Video Clips 
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario-Oral Health Assessment and Interventions Best Practice Guidelines 
• Alberta Seniors Report 
• Oral Health of Seniors Project: CHSRF Final Report
• Oral Health Results of the Canadian Health Measures Survey for Adults Aged 60-79

Social Determinants of Health

• What Determines Health (PHAC) 
• World Health Organization Commission on the Social Determinants of Health including fact files, videos, reports and information
• York University's Listserv on the Social Determinants of health

Surviellance

• Health Canada’s Oral Health Needs Assessment Tool Kit

Tobacco Cessation

CAN-ADAPTT is a Centre for Addiction & Mental Health project that aims to develop a practice-informed Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for smoking cessation in Canada .  As a Practice-Based Research Network, CAN-ADAPTT is committed to facilitating research and knowledge exchange among health care providers, decision makers and researchers to help more Canadians successfully quit smoking.  Visit CAN-ADAPTT  to access the smoking cessation guideline and use the discussion board to share resources, ask questions and exchange information with other providers.  Registration is free. Funding for this initiative has been provided by Health Canada.