What's new on the Clearinghouse website
Oral Health Messages Pamphlet - 'Your Oral Health'
A pamphlet entitled, 'Your oral health' based on the 'Evidence based oral health messages' scientific paper as published in the ADJ is now available through this website and paper copies are available for order. The PDF and the order form can be found here.
Oral health in Australian Federal Budget 2012
In the second week of May 2012 the Federal Budget for Australia for 2012 was announced. Dental health found its place in the budget with the allocation of
- $345.9 million over three years to alleviate pressure on public dental waiting lists
- $158.6 million over four years to the capacity of the dental workforce
- $10.5 million to plan and deliver oral health promotion activities, and
- $0.5 million to support the delivery of pro bono dental services
More details can be viewed on the budget website of the government of Australia.
The following pages have new updates
- The programs page for South Australia
- The resources page has a link to the health promotion websites database compiled by the Australian National Preventive Health Agency
- The resources page for health promoters and teachers has a link to a resource called "tooth tutor" a curriculum for use in oral health promotion in schools under international sources
- The Publications page has been updated with Journal articles and the latest set of AIHW reports from 2011
- Consensus paper of the workshop on 'Evidence-Based Oral Health Messages for Australia' as published in the Australian Dental Journal
- The background papers that were presented in the consensus workshop mentioned above are also available now and can be accessed in the 'Resources for Health Promoters' page under 'Review of Evidence'. A few papers are yet to be uploaded, and will be up shortly. Please check back soon.
- New link to pamphlets and fact sheets on the resources for general public page
Launch of the Indigenous Oral Health Unit (IOHU)
A new unit for Indigenous Oral Health has been launched within the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health (ARCPOH) on 16 December 2011. It focuses specifically on the oral health of Indigenous Australians, continuing and expanding on the work already carried out by ARCPOH in the area.
The unit is concerned with Indigenous oral health, access to dental care, provision of dental care and the labour force which produces dental care to this disadvantaged population. Through research, it seeks to achieve improved oral health and better dental care for all Indigenous Australians.
For more information on the Indigenous Oral health Unit visit their website.
