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What is the science and art of helping people and society change their lifestyles to attain optimal health.
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Health promotion |
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What does health promotion enable?
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It enables people and groups of people to increase control over and to improve their health through educational and preventative programs, change in policy and creation of law. |
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What is the goal health promotion?
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To advocate health, increase awareness of health issues, and identify appropriate strategies to address health issues and prevent disease.
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What are four preventable diseases in oral health?
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1. Dental Caries 2. Disease of the supporting structures 3. Oral pharyngeal cancer 4. Craniofacial injuries |
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When we empower people to take charge of their oral health, what occurs?
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They are reducing disease in their whole body. |
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What does health promotion do to policy makers in all sectors and at all levels?
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It puts health on the agenda. It also encompasses legislation, fiscal measures, taxation, and organizational change.
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Treating existing disease focuses on improving ______________ of _____________.
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Quantity of life
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What is the quantity of life?
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The number of years an individual lives.
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What two things focus on the quantity of life?
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Disease treatment and disease prevention
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What two things does health promotion places the emphasis on improving?
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Quantity and Quality
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What is the quality of life?
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How meaningful a given life is, which is dependent upon an individual's overall health. |
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What is the purpose of prevention?
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to ensure that a disease process never starts, or is curtailed at and early stage.
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What are examples of oral health promotion?
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Water fluoridation, pit and fissure sealant programs, tobacco cessation programs, school fluoride programs, donated dental services, public school oral hygiene instruction, Give Kids a Smile
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What are three levels of prevention?
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Primary prevention Secondary prevention Tertiary prevention
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What level of prevention occurs before the disease happens?
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Primary
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What level of prevention is treatment or control of disease early in the process?
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Secondary
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What level of prevention is limiting a disability from a disease or rehabilitation of an individual?
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Tertiary
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What is the goal of oral health promotion?
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To empower people to attain equity in health and to reduce the incidence and prevalence of oral disease through education and interventions.
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What are some current Utah Oral Health Promotion Programs?
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Salt Lake Donated Dental Services, Dental Screenings and Sealant Clinics, Give Kids A Smile Campaign, Sealants for Smiles, Utah County Health Connect. |
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What is health education?
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The education of health behaviors that bring an individual to a state of health awareness (Theory and demonstration) |
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What is health promotion?
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The promotion of healthy ideas and concepts to motivate individuals to adopt health behaviors. (programs and opportunities. |
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What is the most important thing you contribute to health promotion?
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It is what you do to motivate, help, educate, and nurture the paient. We not only need to educate but need to promote and motivate. |
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What are the key issues needing education?
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Water fluoridation, Oral self-care behaviors, Oral screening and risk factors for oral cancer, ECC- Baby tooth decay, Nutrition - anorexia and bulimia, Oral health effects of HIV/AIDS. |
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What are the key populations targeted for health promotion?
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Cultural issues and disparities, Low income, Older adults, Special needs populations, Domestic violence identification and referal. |
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What percentage of battered women's injuries involve the face? eyes? neck?
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68% face 45% eyes 12% neck |
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What other things can gum disease lead to in your body?
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Stroke, Respiratory diease, Heart disease, Diabetes, Ulcers, Osteoporosis, Arthritis, Pre-term births |
