Elements and Performance Criteria
- Deliver an oral health promotion program
- Identify the target group and appropriate teaching and learning styles to effectively communicate an oral health promotion program
- Prioritise the oral health issues fore the target group and the potential foe effective interventions
- Prepare oral health promotion materials suitable for use across age groups
- Ensure flexibility of delivery of oral health promotion taking into account the target group's location, economic and physical circumstances, language, culture and communication needs
- Actively involve community groups in health decision making and setting of oral health promotion priorities
- Implement a review strategy to determine the effectiveness of the oral health promotion program
- Develop oral health promotion strategies for a target group
- Provide information on the causes of oral diseases to a target group appropriately and completely using language that can be easily understood
- Provide information on the prevention of oral diseases appropriately and completely using language that can be easily understood
- Develop and give appropriate information on acids and fermentable carbohydrates in a manner that can be easily understood
- Involve the target group in a review of current dietary habits and the development of an approach to healthy eating which improves general and oral health
- Provide information appropriately on dentally healthy lifestyle and behavioural change
- Provide an appropriate environment for the target group to ask questions and become involved in oral health
- Integrate oral health promotion with targeted National Health Priorities
- Work collaboratively with other health care workers in a culturally sensitive and competent manner to address risk factors that oral diseases have in common with other diseases
- Personalise the delivery of health information so that it is immediately relevant to the individual and the consequences of behaviour