1. Dental Health Education
Is a process that informs motivates that helps person to adapts, and comducts
professional training amd research to the same end
Health Educatipn
Any combination of learning opportunities designed to facilitate voluntary adaptations
of behavior that are conductive to health
Health Educator
Essential component in the management
Health Promotion
Refers to actions to alter the living envitonment of persons to imrpove their health,
despite individual actions such as community water fluoridation or enabking preventive
procedures
Basic Concepts of DHE
The goal of dhe is preventioin and control of dental disease
COGNITIVE - behavior is learned by individuals not by person to person
knowledge-attitude-behavior change
BEHAVIORAL LEARNING MODEL - Changing the learners behavior through prescribed
activities that present the appropriate skills, behavior and knowldedge with the hope thatthe
desired attitudes will follow. Doing it simultaeneously
SELF CARE MOTIVATION MODEL - offered by Horrowitz, whole-body approach,
CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY HEALTH MODEL aka Public Health Model, takes into
account the cultural, economic and other environmemtal factors that influences health, like in
Ifugao, we cannot change right away their cultural beliefs. Most current approach.
Primary Objectove
to motivate individual studetns yl seek the goal of disease preventipn and tooth
comservation
histprically, dental health education for children has been a priority for tbe dental
profession because of the higj prevalence of dental caries in this age group
the school system has emerged as tne most logical anf practival setting to iplemeny
karge scale dental health education programs
the school-based dentsl health program provides an opportunity to reach the largets
number of children during early stages of development when habbit patterns can more easily
DIFFERENT METHODS OF DOING DHE
LECTURE METHOD-
LECTURE DEMONSRATIONMETHOD
DISCUSSION METHOD - group activity involving the teacher and stident
QUESTIONNING METHOD - more of a discussion and there will be questions being
asked
DEVELOPMENTAL METHOD - LETS FIND OUT METHOD, problem solving method.
Experimental
DIRECTED STUDY AND PRACTICE METHOD
2. TEAM TEACHING METHOD involves two or more teachers
DIFFERENT TEACHING STRATEGIES
discussion technique
brainstormong
buzz sessipn
role playng or dramatization
resource or guest speaker
field trips
actual participation
collage
panel discussion
educational game
