Research Catalog

Title

The public school in American dentistry / Steven L. Schlossman, JoAnne Brown, Michael Sedlak.

Author

Schlossman, Steven L.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, [1986].

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Joanne.
• Sedlak, Michael W.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Description

xi, 70 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

A number of groups have become interested recently in improving children's oral health through school-based dental programs, apparently unaware that prior to the 1960s the public schools were deeply involved in children's dentistry. Indeed, between about 1915 and 1950, public school programs provided a major portion of children's dental preventive care and treatment. This report presents a preliminary overview of the public schools' role in U.S. dentistry. Its purpose is to inform contemporary policy debate and to stimulate scholarly inquiry into dentistry as an important subject in the history of the health sciences, public health, and public education.

Series Statement

The Rand publication series

Uniform Title

• Rand publication series.
• Rand ; R-3343-RWJ/RC.

Subject

• Health Education, Dental
• School children > History. > United States
• United States

Note

• "R-3343-RWJ/RC."
• "April 1986."
• "Prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833007289

OCLC

13709410

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library