GS02: Closing General Session: An Oral Health and Overall Health Makeover: Empowering Patients to Quit Tobacco and Advancing Health Equity in Your Communities
Looking for effective new ways to educate your patients about tobacco use and its impact on oral health? The ADHA24 Closing General Session will set you up with tools to empower your patients to quit tobacco. Join us for tips you can put into practice as soon as you’re back in the office.
Ebony Jackson Griffin, MPH, Associate Director for Health Equity in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office on Smoking and Health, is an expert on tobacco reduction and cessation strategies.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this session attendees will be able to:
Describe the health burden of tobacco use on patients’ oral and overall health.
Identify tobacco-related disparities and their drivers in specific populations.
Summarize the reasons menthol-flavored tobacco products contribute to tobacco-related health disparities.
Summarize proven treatments for quitting tobacco.
Identify at least three health system-level strategies that can improve the delivery of cessation treatment.
Describe four broader policy levers, or population-level strategies, that create societal conditions for smoking cessation success.
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