Maternal and Child Health
Materials and Presentations
ASTDD Best Practice Approach Reports
ASTDD's Best Practice Approach reports promote best practices for state, territorial, and community oral health programs. Several of the reports focus on issues relates to the maternal and child health population.
ASTDD Policy Statements and White Papers
ASTDD policy statements and white papers reflect the association's stance on public oral health issues. Topics include community water fluoridation, dental sealants, early childhood caries, fluorides, perinatal oral health, preventing tobacco use and eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke, school-based or school-linked mobile or portable services, state-based oral-health-surveillance systems, and state oral health program infrastructure and capacity.
Bright Futures: Oral Health-Pocket Guide
This pocket guide offers health professionals an overview of preventive oral health supervision for five periods-pregnancy and postpartum, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. The pocket guide is designed to help health professionals implement specific oral health guidelines during these periods. (2016)
Making the Case for Oral Health to Your MCH/Title V Agency - Act now to ensure that oral health is part of your state's Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) needs assessment and state action plan! Your state MCH agency may have begun the process of conducting the Title V 5-year needs assessment. If the process hasn't started yet, it will soon. Don't hesitate; your action is needed now to become involved in the needs assessment process. To wait risks losing an opportunity to focus attention and resources on oral health in your state and to galvanize statewide support for oral health efforts over the next 5 years! The Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD) and the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC) have developed three resources to help you and your staff with efforts to become involved in the needs assessment process and ultimately the development of the state action plan. (January 2019)
- Including Oral Health in the Title V Maternal and Child Health 5-Year Needs Assessment and State Action Plan [tip sheet]
- Rationale/Arguments for Including Oral Health in the Title V Needs Assessment
- "Elevator Pitch" for Introducing Oral Health Issues to MCH Director or Title V Coordinator
MCH Title V National Performance Measure for Oral Health Summary
The measures and the process states and jurisdictions use for the MCH Services Block Grant application, Title V 5-year needs assessment, and reporting has changed starting in 2015 and revised recently. This document includes a summary followed by a detailed overview of the changes, along with suggested strategies to promote oral health in states and jurisdictions using a three-tiered framework that includes national outcome measures, national performance measures, and evidence-based or evidence-informed strategy measures. (2023)
Oral Health Quality Indicators for the Maternal and Child Health Population
This handout outlines a set of maternal and child health quality indicators to monitor oral health services delivered in public health programs and systems of care. Indicators for women of childbearing age and pregnant women are broken into three categories: access, utilization, and outcomes. Indicators for children are broken into four categories: access, utilization, process, and outcomes. (2020)
Websites
Title V Information System
This website contains information relating to Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant programs, including state action plans, national and state performance measures, and national and state data.
