Postgraduate Researchers in Science Medicine Conference 2005: Abstracts
Supporting Healthy Schools to Promote Oral Health
E Stokes, CM Pine
Oral diseases constitute major public health problems. Appropriately targeted oral health promotion may improve this situation. Oral disease often begins in childhood therefore healthy schools may present opportunities to promote children’s oral health.
Healthy schools operationalise an approach to health promotion that involves tackling common risk factors rather than targeting specific diseases. Current thinking emphasises the salience of promoting oral health through this approach. This presentation offers a model that suggests the infrastructure necessary for evidence-based oral health promotion to take place within healthy schools.
The model is informed by WHO guidance on oral health promotion, the evidence base for oral health promotion and health promoting schools, the English National Healthy Schools Standard and the documents that inform the healthy schools movement i.e. the Ottawa Charter and the Jakarta Declaration. The model is being tested using Delphi technique with groups involved in healthy schools and oral health promotion policy development and implementation.
Emma Stokes, Clinical Dental Sciences, University of Liverpool, 35 Crescent Road, Birkdale, Southport, Merseyside
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