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Vol. 1 No. 3 (2011)

The Mobile♥Care Health Project: Providing Dental Care in Rural Hawai'i Communities

Submitted
June 9, 2023
Published
2011-01-25

Abstract

This paper reports on the Mobile♥Care Health Project (MCHP), a project of the Office for Social Ministry (OSM) of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu (referred to subsequently as “Diocese”), which aimed to increase access to dental care for the underserved on the Island of Hawai'i. This paper describes the history of the project, challenges encountered in its development, short and long term goals set and accomplished, and the community-based dental care programs that were established as a result of the MCHP initiative.