Improving Child, Adolescent and Maternal Oral Health

Dear Colleagues,

For this Special Issue of Healthcare, we plan to bring together research that focuses on innovative oral health promotion, prevention and early intervention strategies for children, adolescents, and pregnant women, either in the form of integrated solutions or models of care.

We welcome the submission of articles that include reported outcomes and those that detail the use and impact of community partnerships and co-design in the development of research questions, methods, and data collection and analysis. We are interested in participatory action research and multidisciplinary approaches and will give preference to articles that address Indigenous child, adolescent and maternal oral health strategies and research methodologies.

We encourage the submission of both quantitative and qualitative research articles, as well as systematic reviews. We are not seeking protocol papers or commentaries, although we will accept Letters to the Guest Editor. Well written articles displaying methodological rigor will be prioritized. We welcome articles from different countries (low, middle, and high income) as well as different contexts (populations or diseases).

Dr. John Skinner
Dr. Kylie Gwynne
Guest Editors

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