Oral Health Promotion

Edited by Lone Schou and Anthony S. Blinkhorn

Oral Health Promotion

Edited by Lone Schou and Anthony S. Blinkhorn

Description

Many of the common dental diseases are behavioural in origin, and are affected by individual lifestyles. Health promotion is therefore at the heart of preventing and controlling dental ill health. This is the first book to tackle this important new area of dentistry and presents theoretical and practical advice on a broad range of topics; including models and theories of health behaviour, influence of social factors on oral health promotion, government health policies, health education in specific settings, national campaigns, and evaluation of interventions. Here, the international contributers provide a broad overview of the subject which enables the reader to target sections of particular interest. Practical guidelines for the planning and implementation of oral health programmes presented will be invaluable for practitioners.

Oral Health Promotion

Edited by Lone Schou and Anthony S. Blinkhorn

1:The history of dental health education: a case study of Britain
2:Theories and models of health behaviour
2.1:Basic theories
2.2:Models of health behaviour
2.3:Comprehensive systems models - metamodels
3:Social factors in oral health promotion
3.1:Oral functions and dysfunction, established risk factors, and known preventive interactions
3.2:The social process and context of oral function and dysfunction
3.3:Social factors associated with oral health promotion
4:The role of the decision maker in oral health promotion
4.1:Decision making at the level of the individual
4.2:The dental health professional as decision maker
4.3:State and local agencies
4.4:National programmes
4.5:International programmes
5:The role of oral health promotion in oral health policy
5.1:The stakeholders and their role in policy
5.2:Evaluating policies: SWOT
5.3:Policy formation
5.4:National dental associations
5.5:Governments
5.6:The mass media
5.7:The United Kingdom experience
5.8:The contribution of policy to improvements in oral health
6A:National campaigns
6A.1:Behavioural theory
6A.2:Dental association campaigns
6A.3:Government sponsored campaigns
6A.4:Campaigns advertising dental products
6B:General dental practice, health education, and health promotion: a critical reappraisal
6B.1:The role of health education and health promotion in general practice
6B.2:Criticisms of the current practice of health education in general dental practice
6B.3:The current practice of oral health education
6B.4:Health education materials in general dental practice
6B.5:Developing an oral health promotion strategy for general dental practice
6C:Oral health promotion with children and adolescents
6C.1:Lifestyles conducive to oral health
6C.2:Socialization
6C.3:Programmes of oral health promotion for children
6C.4:Healthy environment
6D:Oral health promotion in the workplace
6D.1:General health promotion programmes in the workplace
6D.2:The management perspective
6D.3:The dental profession's point of view
6D.4:Employees' point of view
6D.5:Examples of oral health promotion programmes in the workplace
6D.6:Theoretical considerations
6E:Oral health promotions in old age
6E.1:Changing patterns of ageing
6E.2:Why be concerned about older poeple's oral health?
6E.3:What is the goal of oral health promotion with older adults?
6E.4:Is there hope for older adults? Some dos and don'ts
6F:Oral health promotion in developing countries
6F.1:Realities
6E.2:Risk factors
6E.3:Shifting the focus
6E.4:Supportive strategies
6E.5:Participatory research
6E.6:The challenge
7:Evaluation and planning of oral health promotion programmes
7.1:What is evaluation?
7.2:Why evaluate?
7.3:Defining what should be evaluated
7.4:Evaluation and measurement
7.5:Problems of measurement in the evaluation of health promotion
7.6:The study population
7.7:Collecting the data
7.8:Evaluation and experimental methodology
7.9:Common problems associated with the planning of health promotion programmes

Oral Health Promotion

Edited by Lone Schou and Anthony S. Blinkhorn

Author Information

Edited by Lone Schou, Senior Lecturer in Community Dental Health, Department of Preventative Dentistry, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Anthony S. Blinkhorn, Professor of Oral Health, Department of Oral Health and Development, University of Manchester, UK

Oral Health Promotion

Edited by Lone Schou and Anthony S. Blinkhorn

Reviews and Awards

First-class book... Lone Schou and Anthony Blinkhorn have collected together contributions from well-known individuals on oral health matters around the world to produce a readable book of some 12 chapters. This provides a useful scientifically-based reference book with an international flavour, covering all aspects of oral health promotion. The editors and the contributors from Great Britain, America, Canada, Scandinavia and Australia are to be congratulated on filling a gap in dental literature. This book is a must for serious students of dental public health and other branches of dentistry in which oral health promotion is an important consideration. It brings together scientific knowledge, common sense and pratical advice on this complex subject. The book will also find a place on many dentists' bookshelves, as a valuable source of reference on oral health promotion. - John Palmer, International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, Vol. 3/4

This is the first comprehensive text book in this field and for this reason it is of considerable importance... will serve well the needs of both undergraduates in training and practitioners, whether in public or private practice. - Journal of the Institute of Health Education, Vol. 32/1

This is an important and timely publication that will meet a long felt need for a readable and comprehensive text book on oral health promotion. The authors and editors are to be congratulated on compressing so much into a readable and useful book. It can be usefully recommended to a wide range of disciplines as a text book. Few would fail to gain a better insight into the theory and practice of effective health education. - BDJ