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This study aimed to develop a policy to promote and facilitate healthier eating, researchers, practitioners, and the school community formed a partnership, together creating the Boost Better Breaks (BBB) school-based policy
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: Northern Ireland has a high prevalence of childhood dental caries, reflecting heavy consumption of cariogenic snack foods. To develop a policy to promote and facilitate healthier eating, researchers, practitioners, and the school community formed a partnership, together creating the Boost Better Breaks (BBB) school-based policy. The policy was developed with and supported by more...
International Classification:
Diet and lifestyle
Categories:
healthier eating programme
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Public Health Rep,
Vol: 116 Page: 617-25 2001 Nov-Dec
R. Freeman; M. Oliver; G. Bunting; J. Kirk; W. Saunderson
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This study aimed to explore how physical (dental caries) and psychosocial (age, dental anxiety and dental health behaviour) factors, associated with child and parent, influenced dentists' sedation choice when a child presents in pain
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OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to examine how physical (dental caries) and psychosocial (age, dental anxiety and dental health behaviour) factors, associated with child and parent, influenced dentists' sedation choice when a child presents in pain. METHODS: 600 parents whose children were aged between 5 and 11 years took part: 200 attended for routine dental care (RDC); the more...
International Classification:
Practice/knowledge - dental caries
Categories:
dental caries
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol,
Vol: 29 Page: 30-6 February 2001
P. Carson; R. Freeman
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This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the overall intervention on school pupils' dental health knowledge and reported behaviour.
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A pilot oral health programme was developed which aimed to improve dental health knowledge and behaviour amongst Irish school children aged 7-12 years. The programme comprised two integral components: a television campaign, run over a 6-week period, was incorporated into the children's programme 'Den TV' on national television, with video clips of a member of the music band Boyzone more...
International Classification:
Dental
Categories:
dental health knowledge
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Health Promot Int,
Vol: 17 Page: 119-26 June 2002
S. Friel; A. Hope; C. Kelleher; S. Comer; D. Sadlier
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This article discusses the burden of disease as borne by those who suffer as patients but also by society at large, including health service providers
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The burden of disease is borne by those who suffer as patients but also by society at large, including health service providers. That burden is felt most severely in parts of the world where there is no infrastructure, or foreseeable prospects of any, to change the status quo without external support. Poverty, disease and inequality pervade all the activities of daily living in more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Eur J Dent Educ,
Vol: 12 Suppl 1 Page: 30-9 February 2008
J. Nunn; R. Freeman; E. Anderson; L. C. Carneiro; M. S. Carneiro; A. Formicola; R. Frezel; J. Kayitenkore; C. Luhanga; G. Molina; I. Morio; N. O. Nartey; P. I. Ngom; M. F. de Lima Navarro; A. Segura; S. Oliver; S. Thompson; M. Wandera; N. Yazdanie
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The aim of this study was to describe the dental health of 5-year-old children from disadvantaged schools in the Eastern Regional Health Authority area who were part of an oral health promotion project
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BACKGROUND: An oral health promotion project targeted at 5-year-old children in schools designated as disadvantaged was piloted by the Dental Health Foundation. The dental health of some of the children in the project was assessed. RESULTS: It was found that in senior infant classes in schools designated as socially disadvantaged, fewer children were decay free and the mean dmft was more...
International Classification:
Dental
Categories:
social disadvantage
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
J Ir Dent Assoc,
Vol: 49 Page: 133-8 2003
C. Bradley
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The aim of this study was to describe the oral health of children with Down syndrome in Ireland
Abstract:
The authors investigated the oral health of a convenience sample of 71 children with Down syndrome. The study group had a lower caries prevalence but similar levels of unmet treatment needs as children at special and mainstream schools. Treatment experience varied with age: 5-year-olds had more extractions and fewer restorations, and 15-year olds had fewer extractions and more more...
International Classification:
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities - Chromosomal abnormalities, not elsewhere classified - Down syndrome
Categories:
Down syndrome
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Spec Care Dentist,
Vol: 24 Page: 55-60 2004 Mar-Apr
C. Bradley; T. McAlister
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