Oral health promotion in schools: rationale and evaluation
| Autor: | Meredith Caitlin, Andrew J. Macnab, Alex Kizito, Yili Wang, Arabat Kasangaki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Program evaluation
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Alternative medicine Education Gingivitis Health promotion Quality of life (healthcare) Nursing Intervention (counseling) Medicine medicine.symptom business Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Health Education. 114:293-303 |
| ISSN: | 0965-4283 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/he-08-2013-0042 |
| Popis: | Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the rationale and potential for the WHO health promoting schools (HPS) to improve children ' s oral health, and describe validated quantitative methodologies and qualitative approaches to measure program impact. Design/methodology/approach – Critical discussion of the impact of poor oral health and potential for school-based educational intervention, and evaluation methodologies used by the authors. Findings – Using HPS to improve oral health is relevant because dental caries and gingivitis/periodontitis negatively impact children ' s health and quality of life worldwide. WHO has called for effective community-based oral health promotion programs; intervention is simple and low cost; robust evaluation measures exist – the decayed missing filled teeth index and change in cavity rate allow quantitative comparison of oral health status; and questionnaires document changes in knowledge, practices, diet, health-related quality of life, and pain. Practical impli... |
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