Health Promotion Flashcards
What is oral health?
A standard of health of the oral and related tissues which enables an individual to function without discomfort.
What is in the Tannahill model?
Health Education
Disease prevention
Health Protection
What is health promotion?
Education and the provision of information
What is prevention?
Patient based interventions such as fissure sealants.
What is health protection?
Legislation or regulations to improve health
What are example of health education?
Diet advice
Toothbrushing
Dental Attendance
Mouthguards
Alcohol and smoking cessation
What are the disadvantages to oral health education?
Changes in knowledge don’t necessitate a change in behaviour.
Short term improvements
Disease focussed and victim blaming.
Potential to widen health inequalities.
What are the levels of prevention?
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
What are the approaches to prevention in a population?
High risk approach.
Population approach
Common risk factor approach
Proportionate Universalism
What does the high risk population approach aim to do?
Reduce the prevalence of risk factors for those most at risk.
Identify and protect susceptible individuals.
What is an example of the high risk approacch?
5000ppm duraphat toothpaste
Advantages of the high risk approach
Targeted
Identification of risk
Self identification
Tailored prevention
Disadvantages of the high risk approach
Medicalisation of health
Stigma
Costly
What is the population approach?
Reduces prevalence of rsk factors for everyone.
What are examples of population approach?
1350-1500pm toothpaste
What are the advantages of the population approach?
Focus on health and not disease
Everyones business
Empowering
Long term changes
What are the disadvantages to the population approach?
Political will
Slow change
those that respond are healthy
What is the common risk factor approac?
Recognises that non-communicable diseases share common risk factors.
What are upstream interventions?
reform fundamental social structures
What are midstream interventions?
Reduce a persons exposure to hazards. Changing the causes.
What are downstream interventions?
Increase in access, change the effects of the cause.
