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Increasing Capacity for Oral Health Project

The purpose of the Increasing Capacity for Oral Health (ICOH) research project was to increase capacity to inform oral health policy regarding vulnerable populations.  The project was a collaboration of clinician-researchers at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and a diverse group of stakeholders in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) (including decision-makers, health services providers and researchers) who share an interest in buidling the necessary links between the assessment of oral health needs and the delivery of oral health services.The goal of study was to plan ways to measure and monitor oral health status and to guide policy aimed at improving the oral health of vulnerable populations on the east coast, beginning with the senior population.

The study received ethics approval from Dalhousie University Health Sciences Research Ethics Board and was funded by the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The ICOH project was one of only four CIHR Disparities in Oral Health seed grants funded in Canada.

A CIHR report describing the outcomes of the four research projects supported by the Disparities in Oral Health seed grants is available here.