LEVEL PENCEGAHAN PRIMER

HEALTH PROMOTION

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Health promotion enables people to increase control over

their own health. It covers a wide range of social and
environmental interventions that are designed to benefit and
protect individual peoples health and quality of life by
addressing and preventing the root causes of ill health, not
just focusing on treatment and cure.

3 KEY ELEMENTS OF HEALTH

PROMOTION:
1. Good governance for health

Health promotion requires policy makers across all government departments to make health a
central line of government policy. This means they must factor health implications into all the
decisions they take, and prioritize policies that prevent people from becoming ill and protect
them from injuries.
These policies must be supported by regulations that match private sector incentives with
public health goals. For example, by aligning tax policies on unhealthy or harmful products such
as alcohol, tobacco, and food products which are high in salt, sugars and fat with measures to
boost trade in other areas. And through legislation that supports healthy urbanization by
creating walkable cities, reducing air and water pollution, enforcing the wearing of seat belts
and helmets.

2. Health literacy
People need to acquire the knowledge, skills and information to make healthy choices, for
example about the food they eat and healthcare services that they need. They need to have
opportunities to make those choices. And they need to be assured of an environment in which
people can demand further policy actions to further improve their health.

3. Healthy cities
Cities have a key role to play in promoting good health. Strong leadership and commitment at

Preventive dentistry
Preventive Dentistry is all of dentistry and encompasses
those practices by individuals and communities that affect
oral health status (Jong,1981)

Prevention concepts and health/disease continuum

Levels of
prevention

Primary

Secondary

Tertiary

Priorities of
prevention

Prevention of
disease
initiation

Prevention of
disease
progression
and recurrence

Prevention of
loss
of function

Taxonomy of
prevention

Prepathosis

Intervention

Replacement

Preventive
services

Health promotion
Specific protection

Early diagnosis
and
prompt
treatment

Disability
limitation
Rehabilitation

Prepathogenesis

Pathogenesis

Health/disease
continuum
Sumber: Jong (1981)

Dental caries: individual, community, and dental professional prev. dentistry services
Primary

Secondary

Levels of
prevention

Preventive
services

Health
promotion

Specific
protection

Early diagnosis
& Prompt
treatment

Disability
limitation

Rehabilitation

By
Individuals

Diet planning
Periodic visit
to
Dental office

Use of
Fluoride
Oral hygiene
practices

Self
examination,
Referal &
utilization of
dental services

Utilization
of
dental
services

Utilization of
dental
services

By
Community

DHE
Programs,
Promotion of
Research
effort

Water
Fluoridation
,
Fluoride
mouth
rinse or
tablet
program

Periodic
screening,
Referal,
provision
of dental
services

Provision
of
dental
service

Profision of
Dental
service

By Dental
professional

Patient
Education,
Plaque
control,
Diet
counselling,
Recall
Reinforcemen
t,
Dental caries
activity test

Fluoride
topical
application,
fluoride
supplement/
rinse
prescript.
F
prophylaxis
paste,
adhesive

Complete
Examination,
Prompt
treatment
of incipient
lession,
simple
restorative
dentistry, pulp
capping

Complex
Restotrativ
e
dentistry,
pulpotomy,
root canal
terapy,
extraction.

Removable
and
Fixed
prostho.,
Minor tooth
Movement,
Implant.

Periodontal desease: individual, community, and dental professional prev. dentistry services
Primary

Secondary

Levelsof
Prevention

Preventive
services

Health
promotion

Specific
Protection

Early diagnosis
& Prompt
treatment

Disability
limitation

Rehabilitation

By
Individuals

Periodic visit
to Dental
Office

Oral
Hygiene
practices

Self
examination,
Referal &
utilization of
dental services

Utilization
of
dental
services

Utilization of
dental

By
Community

DHE
Programs,
Promotion of
Research
effort
Provision of
Oral Hygiene
Aids
Lobby effort

Supervised
schhol
brushing
program

Periodic
screening,
Referal,
provision
of dental
services

Provision
of
dental
service

Profision of
Dental
service

By Dental
professional

Patient
Education,
Plaque
control,
Diet
counselling,
Recall
Reinforcemen
t

Correction
of tooth
malalignme
nt
Prophylaxis

Complete
Examination,
Scaling and
Curretage
Corrective
Restorative
and
Occlusal
services

Deep
curettage
Rootplanin
g
Splinting
Periodonta
l surgery
Selective
extraction

Removable
and
Fixed
prostho.,
Minor tooth
Movement,
Implant.

Oral Cancer: individual, community, and dental professional prev. dentistry services
Primary

Secondary

Levels of
prevention

Preventive
services

Health
promotion

Specific
protection

Early diagnosis
& Prompt
treatment

Disability
limitation

Rehabilitation

By
Individuals

Diet planning
Periodic visit
to
Dental office
Demand for
preventive
services

Avoidance
of known
irritants

Self
examination,
Referal &
utilization of
dental services

Utilization
of
dental
services

Utilization of
dental
services

By
Community

DHE
Programs,
Promotion of
Research
effort
Lobby effort

Periodic
screening,
Referal,
provision
of dental
services

Provision
of
dental
service

Profision of
Dental
service

By Dental
professional

Patient
Education,

Complete
Examination,
Biopsi
Oral Cytology
Complete
excision

Chemother
apy
Radiation
therapy
Surgery

Maxillofacial
and
Removable
prostho.,
Plastic
surgery
Speech
therapy
Counseling

Removal of
known
irritants in
oral cavity

Orofacial defects, malocclusion, accidents:

individual, community, and dental professional prev. dentistry services

Primary
Preventive
services

Health
promotion

By
Individuals

Secondary

Levels of
prevention

Specific
protection

Early diagnosis
& Prompt
treatment

Disability
limitation

Rehabilitation

Use of
protective
devices
Habit
control

Utilization of
dental services

Utilization
of
dental
services

Utilization of
dental
services

By
Community

DHE
Promotion of
protective
garb
Lobby effort

Mouth
guard
Safety of
children
toys, school
building and
playgrounds

Provision
of dental
services

Provision
of
dental
service

Profision of
Dental
service

By Dental
professional

Patient
Education

Caries
control
Space
maintainers
Genetic
Counceling
Prenatal
care
Parental
counseling

Minor
orthodontics

Major
orthodonti
cs
Surgery

Maxillofacial
fixed/
Removable
and
Fixed
prostho.,
Plastic
Surgery
Speech
therapy

EVEL PENCEGAHAN PRIMER

LTH PROMOTION - INDIVIDUAL

Diet planning & Periodic Visit to

Dental office

EVEL PENCEGAHAN PRIMER

LTH PROMOTION - COMMUNITY

DHE Programs Promotion of Research effort

EVEL PENCEGAHAN PRIMER

LTH PROMOTION DENTAL PROFESSIONAL;

Patient Education, Plaque control, Diet

counselling, Recall, Reinforcement,
Dental caries activity test

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