Oral Health Promotion

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