DATE:
May 24, 2022
09
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
Title
ACCEPT TOBACCO TAX FUNDS FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICE OF ORAL HEALTH FOR LOCAL ORAL HEALTH PROGRAM SERVICES (DISTRICTS: ALL)
Body
OVERVIEW
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Office of Oral Health (OOH), formerly the California Oral Health Program, was established in July 2014. The program's mission is to improve the oral health of all Californians through prevention, education, and organized community efforts. To achieve these goals, the OOH provides strategic advice and leadership to oral health stakeholders throughout the state, building oral health workforce capacity and infrastructure, and implementing and evaluating evidence-based best practices in oral disease prevention through the County of San Diego (County) Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Services' Local Oral Health Program (LOHP). The goal of the LOHP is to continue to create and expand capacity at the local level through education, disease prevention, community-clinical linkages, and surveillance. These activities will improve the oral health of California's most vulnerable populations. The County has received OOH funding since 2017 and, the new proposed funding term will support activities for the next five years.
Because of the 1988 California voter-approved Proposition 99, the Tobacco Tax Initiative, the County has received funding from the State for local tobacco education and prevention activities since 1989. The 2016 California voter-approved Proposition 56, the California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax of 2016, increased the cigarette tax by $2.00 per pack, with equivalent increases on other tobacco products and electronic cigarettes. As a result of Proposition 56, the County has received additional funding for local tobacco education and prevention activities including oral health.
Today's action requests the San Diego County Board of Supervisor...
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