§280k–1 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

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The Secretary must give demonstration grants, through the CDC director, to eligible groups to test research-based ways to prevent and manage tooth decay. Eligible groups include community dental providers (like federally qualified health centers, hospital clinics, state or local health departments, Indian Health Service or tribal programs, and urban Indian organizations), health systems and private dental providers, schools that train medical/dental/public health/nursing/nutrition professionals, and national groups working on children’s oral health. Applicants must apply when and how the Secretary requires and give the needed information. Grant money must be used to show how well the research-based tooth-decay management activities work. The Secretary must use the results to help plan and run an oral health education and dental health program.

Title 42, §280k–1

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(a)The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall award demonstration grants to eligible entities to demonstrate the effectiveness of research-based dental caries disease management activities.

(b)To be eligible for a grant under this section, an entity shall—

(1)be a community-based provider of dental services (as defined by the Secretary), including a Federally-qualified health center, a clinic of a hospital owned or operated by a State (or by an instrumentality or a unit of government within a State), a State or local department of health, a dental program of the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization (as such terms are defined in section 1603 of title 25), a health system provider, a private provider of dental services, medical, dental, public health, nursing, nutrition educational institutions, or national organizations involved in improving children’s oral health; and

(2)submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.

(c)A grantee shall use amounts received under a grant under this section to demonstrate the effectiveness of research-based dental caries disease management activities.

(d)The Secretary shall, as practicable and appropriate, utilize information generated from grantees under this section in planning and implementing the oral health education campaign and action for dental health program under section 280k of this title.

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2018—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 115–302 substituted “shall, as practicable and appropriate,” for “shall” and “oral health education campaign and action for dental health program” for “public education campaign”.

§280k–1 Research-based dental caries disease management

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