Oral Health and Oral Health Care of Canadians – Application
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with you unit
Memorial Deadline: Thursday 26th, November 2020
External Deadline: Tuesday 1st, December 2020
Description
Over the past 5 to 10 years, international researchers have found links between oral health and diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, cancer, respiratory, cardiovascular and mental health diseases. There are also links between oral health status and risk factors such as nutrition, mental health environment and social determinants.
Oral health scholars, federal government departments and agencies, provincial and territorial governments, Canadian professional associations1 and international health organizations2, all need access to current comprehensive data to accurately describe the oral health status of Canadians. Such data will allow researchers to explore new directions in oral health that will ultimately allow decision makers to make better-informed decisions as they aim to improve the oral and overall health of Canadians. This need has been further emphasized as the Prime Minister’s recent mandate letter asked the Health Minister to study and analyze the possibility of national dental care3.
The last national evaluation of oral health was over 10 years ago4. A survey conducted in 2007 as part of the larger Canadian Health Measures Survey collected responses from 6,000 Canadian participants aged 6-79 years on a variety of oral health issues. There has been no large scale research into oral health status of Canadians in the intervening 13 years. This proposed funding opportunity will support the development of a comprehensive Oral Health survey of Canadians that will permit analyses of nationally representative data by the wider researcher, clinician and policy making community. The data obtained would be used to assess the current state of oral health and oral health care in Canada.
Additional information can be found at ResearchNet.