The Pew Center on the States: The Cost of Delay
Most Americans' dental health has never been better—but that is not true for an estimated 17 millionchildren in low-income families who lack access to dental care. A 2000 report by the U.S. Surgeon General called dental disease a "silent epidemic." Ten years later, too little has changed. Our report—a collaboration of the Pew Center on the States, the DentaQuest Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation—finds that two-thirds of the states are failing to ensure that disadvantaged children get the dental health care they need. Our report describes the severe costs of this preventable disease: lost school time, challenges learning, impaired nutrition and health, worsened job prospects in adulthood, and sometimes even death. The good news? This problem can be solved.
- Published by
- Pew Center on the States
- Pew Children's Dental Campaign
- Funded by
- DentaQuest Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Issue areas
- Children and Youth
- Health
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper
- Geography
- North America / United States
- Copyright
- Copyright. 2010 The Pew Charitable Trusts. All Rights Reserved.
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- This web page is marked up with Schema.org microdata and formatted for machine-reading. Here's why that matters. Have a peek at what a machine sees here. Title The Pew Center on the States: The Cost of Delay Publication date 2010-02-01 Publication year 2010 Authors Shelly Gehshan
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- Copyright holder(s) Pew Center on the States, Pew Children's Dental Campaign Geographical focus North America / United States Keywords sealant, medicaid, dentists, dental health, oral health Document type Report/Whitepaper Language English URL https://search.issuelab.org/resource/the-pew-center-on-the-states-the-cost-of-delay.html Resource provided by Issue Lab