Health education: Dental health education has 3 major domains (Daly 2013), namely:
Cognitive (informing people): understanding the factual knowledge, e.g. knowledge that eating sugary snacks is linked to the development of dental decay Affective (motivating people): emotions, feelings, and beliefs associated with health, e.g. belief that baby teeth are not important Behavioural (getting into action): skills development, e.g. skills required to effectively floss teeth
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Advice: “the active provision of the preventative information; it has an educative component and is delivered in a gentle non‐patronising manner" (Stott 1990) |
Focuses on individual's autonomy and freedom to choose Designed to be effective at clinical setting, as each member of staff directs and supports the health education activity Works via:
chair‐side interventions (patients face‐to‐face with dentist in clinical setting); being 'inoculation based' (strategies aimed at already established behaviours in high‐risk periods, e.g. smoking cessation during teenage years); being persuasive (includes mass media campaigns, fear‐arousing messages, self directed oral health education).
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Focuses on population as a whole in context of their everyday lives ‐ not on sick people or those at risk of disease Daly 2013) Works at population level involving a number of approaches, sectors, and participation of communities to work together in order to identify and remove hazards to health |
| Training: a process of learning a particular skill or skills required to perform a certain task |
Aims at target individual’s knowledge and oral health‐related skills |
Aims at building a community that is healthy and aware Does not require a skilled workforce, as it employs a number of sectors working together |
