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Sep 07, 2024
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DHY 261 - Dental Health Education Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 2 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Open An introduction to the principles of instruction in health care. The course will include developing, presenting and evaluating dental health education programs for public schools and community groups. Prerequisite: DHY 170 , DHY 171 Competencies
- Perceive how the person relates to the community and factors that influence personal and community health
- Discuss the differences between the World Health Organization’s definitions of health and others’ definitions, as well
- Discuss the concepts of wellness and high-level wellness in relation to health
- Discuss the models of health and health behavior associated with the treatment-orientation and prevention-orientation paradigms of healthcare leading to the current health promotion paradigm
- Differentiate between the three levels of prevention: primary, secondary, and tertiary, and provide an oral health example for each
- Differentiate between health education, health prevention, and health promotion
- Describe health promotion strategies of social marketing, health education, mass media, community organization, advocacy, and legislation
- Recognize the themes from Healthy People 2010 and Healthy Iowans 2010: empowerment, eliminating health disparities, collaboration, and dynamic change
- Identify oral health goals, rational and action steps from Healthy Iowans 2010 that impact children
- Discuss the role of the dental hygienist as change agent, manager, consumer advocate, researcher, and educator in health promotion
- Recognize that oral disease remains a public health problem for Americans and how this problem can be addressed through dental health education.
- Recall the importance of dental health education and promotion
- Identify essential information that the dental health educator must be cognizant of as a part of program planning
- Recognize that behavioral theories applicable on an individual level may not be transferable to solving group and community level health problems
- List and describe key issues in dental health education
- State the factors related to the learner and social environment that influence the dental education process
- Apply current theories of health education that research has proved effective
- Describe a variety of dental health programs
- Provide a list of strategies to further the public’s oral health
- Explain the objectives, components, contents, and factors involved in general and dental health school programs
- Define health education.
- Distinguish between public health education and school health education; describe their interrelationship
- Briefly outline the growth and development of school health program policies.
- Identify the responsibility for public school education
- Identify the major content areas of health instruction.
- State the primary goals of a dental disease prevention program
- Recognize the several different areas in which dental health concepts can be reinforced in the elementary school curriculum
- Discuss dental health as a major area of health education
- Describe the potential roles of the dental hygienist in a school setting
- Recognize and apply principles of the teaching-learning process
- Describe the domains of learning
- Identify major theories of motivation
- Describe how teaching, learning, and communication are interwoven
- Give examples of application of principles to classroom and/or chairside education
- Analyze written descriptions of presentations and isolate strengths and weaknesses, based on teaching-learning principles
- Describe the application of learning theory in behavioristic, cognitive, and humanistic psychology
- Identify communication, teaching and learning techniques appropriate
- Prepare to become a classroom oral health educator throughout childhood and adolescence
- Identify aspects to be considered in preparing to become an effective educator
- Apply knowledge regarding classroom management techniques.
- Increase awareness of multicultural issues in a diverse student population
- Identify general methods of teaching and their appropriate use, such as lecture, demonstration, discussion and inquiry, games and activities, role playing, small group/cooperative learning, problem-solving; field trips, and audiovisuals and visuals.
- Recognize the emotional and physical development for the age/grade being taught
- Identify and apply components of a dental health lesson plan
- Focus on topics appropriate for dental health education for grades K-6.
- Utilize current theories for lesson planning.
- Identify necessary adaptations to meet the requirements of special needs students in the classroom
- Plan, implement and evaluate a dental health unit of instruction for first grade students in an Ankeny elementary school
- Observe the classroom setting and students
- Prepare a formal written lesson plan that focuses on objective-driven areas of dental health education.
- Implement the lesson plan at a time to be coordinated with the classroom teacher
- Evaluate the lesson utilizing object-driven criteria.
- Reveive and analyze the teacher/classroom evaluation and compare it to self-evaluation for the benefit of future presentations.
- Recognize program evaluation as a method to provide accurate information for decision making.
- Distinguish between basic and applied research.
- Recall the importance of measurable objectives in relation to evaluation methods.
- Define the following: reliability and validity.
- Explain the meaning of and discern the differences between evaluation, measurement, and testing
- Discuss the need for multiple evaluation instruments.
- List recognized factors to consider in instrument selection.
- Recognize and apply an approach for preparing a community outreach program
- Identify basic components required
- Recognize specific problems, skills and opportunities that are required to understand and perform prevention and treatment for children under the age of 5
- Describe the fetal development of the oral cavity and oral findings during pregnancy
- Discuss the timing and location of common caries experience in children
- State the rationale for recommended age of first dental interaction and possible indications for referral to a pediatric dentist
- Develop policy and office protocol that follow the needs of the developing child, using anticipatory guidance
- Discuss components of dental caries risk assessment
- Describe preventive measures for high risk children
- List principles that can be used in treatment and management according to risk assessment
- State the benefits of managing the caries process before the cavities
- Recall how you know the caries process has been successfully managed
- Define anticipatory guidance
- List and describe the domains of behavior.
- Recall common fears children have about dental experiences
- Discuss the parental dimensions in regard to informed consent and risk management
- Identify traumatic injuries to primary teeth
- Recall periodontal and soft tissue abnormalities of young children
- Recognize factors affecting dental and maxillofocial growth and development
- State the major stages of comprehensive orthodontic treatment
- Describe early orthodontic treatment initiated in the primary or mixed dentition
- Describe mechanical plaque control aids as well as the use of fluorides and antimicrobial agents for the orthodontic patient
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