Citizens' Watch for Oral Health Campaign

Citizens' Watch Policy Platform

Citizens' Watch supports the following strategies:

Encouraging the inclusion of oral health into well baby checks-ups
Promoting and protecting advances in community water fluoridation
Working with pharmacists and home health care aides to ensure oral health messages are incorporated into seniors' medication management
Promoting the "prevention as a priority" message into the Priorities Of Government budget process
Building support for proposals to improve children's oral health
Helping legislators and candidates for public office understand the cost-savings associated with prevention and translating that understanding into policies
Maintaining relationships with coalition partners and build grassroots support necessary to promote oral health as an important health issue

Working to defeat any legislation that interferes with the ability of local jurisdictions to fluoridate local water supplies.
Protecting and enhancing funding for oral health access around Washington state, such as the Access to Baby and Child Dentistry program.
Promoting healthier choices for school vending machines, including fluoridated bottled water.
Leveraging the Priorities of Government budget process used in 2003 to emphasize the cost savings from increased prevention. Securing funding to identify effective prevention programs statewide and to quantify the benefits and cost-savings of prevention.