Graduation Year
2019
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Public Policy
Second Department
Biology
Reader 1
Sharon Stranford
Reader 2
Richard Worthington
Reader 3
Hilary Laconte
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Abstract
The importance of oral health has been largely neglected from the conventional standards of healthcare in terms of public understanding & prioritization, the industrial infrastructure, and the scope of prevention & early-intervention services. Its adjunctive locus to the field of medicine has lead to the bifurcation of the oral cavity from the rest of the human body. As a result of this divide, there have been multiple factors that have allowed socially stratified oral health outcomes to manifest. This thesis examines the determinants of oral health disparities through a multidisciplinary lens (i.e. biology, public policy, infrastructure), and offers evidence of an adaptable public health intervention to shape public policy recommendations that can remedy the downstream effects of oral health inequity in the state of California and beyond.
Recommended Citation
Chintapalli, Aparna, "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Reforming Organized Dentistry to Address Persistent Oral Health Disparities in the U.S." (2019). Pomona Senior Theses. 230.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/230
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