Ch 8 Concepts

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4 preventable diseases

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dental carries, desease of supporting structures, oral pharyngeal cancers and craniofacial injuries

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WHOs 5 core strategies

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create supportive envornment, build healthy public policy, strengthen community action, develop personal skills, reorient health services

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family

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most powerful social determinate on oral health

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intervention

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any health action-promotive/preventative/curative/rehabilitive-in which primary intent is to improve health

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access to care

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an individuals ability ro obtain needed health care services

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barriers

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factors that hinder an individual from optimal health

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community water flouridation

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the process that optimizes fluoride levels in a communities water supply

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extrinsic motivation

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the desire to change a behavior based on external factors

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fluoride tablets

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specific dosage of FL in tablet; WAS water disolve drink all day, NOW chew and swallow

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flouride varnish

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preventative procedure in whicha highly concentrated varnish painted on teeth

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health habbits

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repeated behaviors that influence health; either positive or neg

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health information literacy

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ability to recognize health info need, identify info source and use to retrieve info, apply, analyze, understand, use info to make decision

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health promotion

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science and art of helping change lifestyle of individ/society to attin optimal health

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initiative

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a process in which anavtion is placed on the ballot by the rewuest of a group of citizens

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intrinsic motivation

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incentive to change behavior, based on personal internal factors

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macro level

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social factors tha tinfluence society and culrural and political agencies

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meso level

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social factors involving institutions, organizations, and social networks

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micro level

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social factors that infuence an individual

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milk flouridation

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addition of FL to milk to prevent dental caries

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multifactoral

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caused by more than one factor

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ottawa charter for health promotion

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developed at the who first international conference on health promotion in canada

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prevention

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the act of preventing a diesise or its sequale

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primary prevention

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the intervention in disease before it occurs (community water fl, varnish, seal, educate)

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quality of life

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the depth of meaning of a given life

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quantity of life

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the actual number of years an individual has lived

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referendum

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the process whereby an action by public officals is placed on the ballot for water support

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risk factors

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factors that place an individual at rish for a disease

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salt FL

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the additionof fluoride to salt to prevent dental carrries

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school-bases program

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deliver oral health care at schools or referred from schools to private practives; for chilren unlikely to recive dental care

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secondary prevention

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treating or controlling disease after it controlling disease after it occurs, but early in its process

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school water fluorideation

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process whereby a school system optimizes the school water supply w FL levels higher than recomended

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social factors

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factors caused by society that effect the health of an individual or a group

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socially equitable

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the same or equal treatment for everyone, despite socieoeconomic standing, race, ethnicity

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tertiary prevention

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limiting disability from a disease or rehabilitation of an individual

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xylotol

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a noncariogenic sugar alchol used as a sugar substitute in food and snack items