Anti-racist approaches to increase access to general and oral health care during a pandemic in the Pacific Islander community

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. 2022 Mar;82 Suppl 1:128-132.


doi: 10.1111/jphd.12519.

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Matthew M Oishi et al.


J Public Health Dent.


2022 Mar.

Abstract

Limited data exists on Pacific Islander (PI) health, but a growing body of literature reports the existence of racial discrimination and inequities and mistrust of the healthcare system, leading to poor health outcomes. When COVID-19 restricted health services, such inequities and mistrust due to historical trauma were magnified. This report describes one federally qualified health center’s dental department’s response utilizing culture-based approaches, community relationships, and the social determinants of health (SDOH) to dispel the stigma of COVID and restrictions on in-person care in order to lower barriers to accessing care. When the dental department transitioned to emergency-only care, staff were redeployed to address significant inequities facing the PI community. Redeployment activities included building relationships with the most vulnerable patients, delivering healthy foods, supplies, oral hygiene kits to households, and canvasing neighborhood businesses with public health education. The mobile dental clinic, a trusted symbol in the community, also brought public health education to community testing events and food distributions. From March 2020 to July 2020, staff conducted over 800 outreach calls for health and food security, delivered over 2000 care packages and oral hygiene kits. Also, frequent community outreach by the mobile dental clinic led to a 10-fold increase in COVID testing. Investing in relationship building can maintain access to health care and build trust in the health care system for PI communities. This approach may be relevant to others serving other communities experiencing racism.


Keywords:

FQHC; Pacific islanders; community dentistry; dental public health; racism; social determinants of health.

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