Dennison Michelle, Seward Julie
Oklahoma City Indian Clinic, Oklahoma City, OK, United States.
Southern Plains Tribal Health Board, Oklahoma City, OK, United States.
Front Oral Health. 2022 Mar 24;3:850602. doi: 10.3389/froh.2022.850602. eCollection 2022.
Oklahoma an ethnically, financially and geographically diverse population has unique oral health care challenges. These challenges include poor overall oral health, inadequate oral health coverage, significant physical access to care barriers and a shortage of oral health care workers. Just as the oral health care barriers are diverse, so are the potential solutions. Potential solutions include efforts at all levels of government, innovations of health care delivery and recognition of the unique needs of Oklahoma American Indian population. Potential strategies address each of these opportunities and recognize both the short and long term needs of Oklahoma oral health.
俄克拉荷马州拥有种族、经济和地理上多样化的人口，面临着独特的口腔医疗保健挑战。这些挑战包括整体口腔健康状况不佳、口腔健康保险覆盖不足、获得医疗服务存在严重的实际障碍以及口腔医疗保健工作者短缺。正如口腔医疗保健障碍多种多样一样，潜在的解决方案也是如此。潜在的解决方案包括各级政府的努力、医疗服务提供方式的创新以及认识到俄克拉荷马州美国印第安人口的独特需求。潜在策略应对这些机遇中的每一个，并认识到俄克拉荷马州口腔健康的短期和长期需求。
