Best practices in General Health education Page 2
Designed to Smile
The Designed to Smile Programme is a preventive programme for children.
- UK
- Addressing oral health inequalities
- General Health education
- Health promotion
- Targeted at children
Gerodent
Gerodent is an oral health care project which has implemented a preventive and curative oral health care program in a network of 40 nursing homes in Belgium (Flanders) since 2010.
- Belgium
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Integrating oral health promotion into broader general health programmes
- Targeted at the elderly
Apollonia 2020
Apollonia 2020, funded by the Lower Austria health insurance authorities, aims to increase the percentage of caries free children.
Maintaining the oral health of elderly and those with special needs in residential care
This is a multi-faceted programme aimed at promoting better oral health of both the elderly and those with special needs in care homes.
- France
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Integrating oral health promotion into broader general health programmes
- Targeted at people with special needs
- Targeted at the elderly
Mouth Cancer Action Month
Run by the British Dental Health Foundation, this campaign raises awareness of mouth cancer, its risk factors and the need for early diagnosis.
- UK
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Health promotion
- Targeted at adults
- Targeted at the elderly
National Smile Month
National Smile Month, run by the British Dental Health Foundation, is a UK national oral health awareness programme.
- UK
- Across the full life course
- Educating professionals
- General Health education
- Health promotion
- Integrating oral health promotion into broader general health programmes
Our Drive for a Healthy Smile
Our Drive for a Health Smile, set up by University of Malta in collaboration with the University of Malta Research Trust, is a mobile dental clinic.
- Malta
- Across the full life course
- Addressing oral health inequalities
- General Health education
- Service provision
Prevention of early childhood caries
Prevention of Early Childhood Caries consists of oral health educational sessions during pregnancy and after the baby’s birth.