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Oral Health

This issue's policy forum focuses on initiatives that promote oral health and on challenges the state currently faces. Commentaries discuss new practice models and trends in dental practice, dentist workforce numbers, the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine education model, and insurance innovation in dental coverage. Several articles focus on access to oral health care in specific populations including children, adult Medicaid recipients, and people with special needs. Original articles examine reasons for tanning bed use among community college students and evaluate the effectiveness of mailed interventions to increase colon cancer screening. TABLE OF CONTENTS | FULL ISSUE (pdf) »
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  • 73(3) Mental Health
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The Impact of Maltreatment on the Developing Child

Hagele DM | NOVEMBER 2005

INVITED COMMENTARY Child maltreatment represents an extreme traumatic insult to the developing child. Chronic traumatic exposure during childhood may lead to persistent changes in brain structure and chemistry that contribute to long-term dysfunction.

BrdsNBz: A Text-Messaging Forum for Improving the Sexual Health of Adolescents in North Carolina

Phillips KR | OCTOBER 2010

INVITED SIDEBAR The BrdsNBz Text Message Warm Line (hereafter, “BrdsNBz”) was launched by the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina in February 2009 to address the sexual-health needs of our state’s teenage population. The primary objective of BrdsNBz is to provide a trusted forum for adolescents to ask questions and receive medically accurate information about their sexual health.

Preventing Child Maltreatment in North Carolina

Zolotor AJ | DECEMBER 2010

INVITED COMMENTARY Child-maltreatment prevention has become more robust in North Carolina since the NCIOM Task Force on Child Abuse Prevention convened in 2005. The commitment by state governmental and nongovernmental leadership and funding agencies has been instrumental to this achievement. This commentary highlights several successful approaches used to prevent child maltreatment in the state, although there is much work to be done.

Barriers to Municipal Planning for Pedestrians and Bicyclists in North Carolina

Evenson KR, et al. | MARCH 2011

ORIGINAL ARTICLE To better understand barriers to municipal walking and bicycling projects and policies, we surveyed municipal staff in North Carolina. For walking, leading barriers included lack of funding (93% of responding municipalities) and other infrastructure priorities (79%), and for bicycling, leading barriers included lack of funding (94%) and other infrastructure priorities (79%).