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Sealant Efficiency Assessment for Locals and States (SEALS)SEALS software helps states and communities evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of their school dental sealant programs. As part of a comprehensive package that includes technical support and data collection forms, the Excel-based software automates
Examples of summary and performance measures generated by SEALS are cost per child receiving sealants, sealant retention, averted caries, and number of children sealed per chair-hour. These measures are available on reports generated for three levels of analysis:
Helps justify programs Oral health program managers can use SEALS data to measure the cost and impact of their sealant program. Documenting that sealant programs are a good use of state resources helps programs to get additional support that allows them to serve more children. Wisconsin, the first state to pilot-test SEALS, generated data that helped convince legislators to double state funding for the state抯 sealant programs (see generic one-page report drawn from actual data).(PDF�) Helps increase efficiency Oral health program managers can use SEALS data to rank school events by need and costs to allocate their scarce resources more efficiently. States can compare local sealant programs on costs, output, and efficiency. The software can also help them formulate goals, and assess less efficient programs. Both Wisconsin and Colorado have used SEALS data to allocate funding among local programs. Package offers latest software, support An updated version of SEALS is available free of charge as a package that includes
Training and limited technical support for SEALS are now available, with priority given to states supported by the CDC Division of Oral Health Cooperative Agreement. For more information, please send inquiries to oralhealth@cdc.gov. One or more documents on this Web page is available in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Acrobat Reader to view and print these documents. One or more documents on this Web page are available in Microsoft� Word Format (DOC). You will need Word Viewer to view and print these documents.
Page last reviewed: October 29, 2008 |
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