Data Reports

The IPEC Core Competencies have helped to frame the national dialogue on the need for interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice as a catalyst for improving team-based patient care and enhancing population health outcomes. First published in 2011 and updated in 2016, the IPEC competencies have become an indispensable resource to advance IPE for collaborative practice (IPECP). Key drivers shaping the 2023 version included the need to integrate perspectives from seven new IPEC member organizations and a desire to reflect contemporary research, policy, education, and practice realities. 

Oral health is an often-overlooked aspect of overall health in the older adult population. Changing perceptions of the importance of older adult oral health requires the dissemination of educational messaging to multiple audiences that result in an increased awareness and improved policy, funding, and program planning that result in older adults getting routine oral health care. The Older Adult Oral Health Resources for Collaboration guide from the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD) was developed as a resource to assist with training and educating professionals who work with older adults, and spark the interest of multiple groups in taking an education and/or advocacy role around older adult oral health through a health equity lens.

The National Call To Action To Promote Oral Health is addressed to professional organizations and individuals concerned with the health of their fellow Americans. It is an invitation to expand plans, activities, and programs designed to promote oral health and prevent disease, especially to reduce the health disparities that affect members of racial and ethnic groups, poor people, many who are geographically isolated, and others who are vulnerable because of special oral health care needs.

A Report Highlighting the Mechanisms and Scope of Integration Efforts

This report presents innovative ways to integrate oral health and primary care, which will give more people access to dental care and further health equity in the U.S. healthcare system.

A Report from the National Institutes of Health

Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges is a culmination of two years of research and writing by over 400 contributors. As a follow up to the Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health in America, this report explores the nation’s oral health over the last 20 years.

As we celebrate our 25^th anniversary as a catalyst for improving oral health, we are pleased to present the Santa Fe Group’s 2022 Annual Report.

In this report, we share highlights of the key initiatives and major programs led by the SFG over the past year. During this celebratory year, we were especially inspired by the tremendous advocacy efforts that helped contribute to the groundbreaking inclusion of dental benefits for medically necessary care in Medicare at the end of 2022. This report also details the attention and energies the SFG has devoted to improving oral health care access for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities.