Oral health promotion

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General resources

Promoting Oral Health 2000-2004: Strategic Directions and Framework for Action (1.27mb, pdf)

Evidence-based health promotion: resources for planning. No. 1 Oral health (2000)

Oral health guidelines for Victorians (393kb, pdf)

Oral health for older people: A practical guide for aged care services (615kb, pdf)

Improved Oral Health for Older People, Special Needs Dentistry - Geriatric Dentistry Action Plan (205kb, pdf)

Oral health promotion: A practical guide for children's services (1.23mb, pdf)

Dental health for children 0-6 years - Information for maternal and child health nurses (340kb, pdf)

Oral health information for maternal & child health nurses (13mb, pdf)
Available from the Dental Health Services Victoria site.

Water fluoridation - Information for health professionals (421kb, pdf)

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Victorian Oral Health Promotion Strategy Grants Program

Victorian Oral Health Promotion Strategy Grants Program: Final Report (1.37mb, pdf)

Victorian Oral Health Promotion Strategy Grants Program - Summary of Project Outcomes (180kb, pdf)

• Promoting child oral health in a newly emerging Somali community (220kb, pdf)
  Banyule Community Health Service Inc.

• The development of an oral health screening tool (OHST) for people with chronic disabilities who are dependent on others for care and for older people (168kb, pdf)
  Bethlehem Health Care Melbourne.

• Pathways to Toothfriendly Confectionery (84kb, pdf)
  Dental Health Services Victoria.

• Smile 2000; Doutta Galla Community Health Service Oral Health Promotion (200kb, pdf)
  Doutta Galla Community Health Service Inc.

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• Promoting oral health of disadvantaged infants in a culturally diverse municipality (520kb, pdf)
  City of Greater Dandenong, Greater Dandenong Community Health Service, Early Steps Child and Family Health Service, Bunurong (Aboriginal) Health Service.

• Oral Health Project for people on Methadone programs and with substance use issues in the Outer Eastern Metropolitan Region (568kb, pdf)
  Knox Community Health Service.

• Consensus guidelines for the prevention and early detection of complications of oral mucositis (116kb, pdf)
  Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute.

• Developing and piloting smoking cessation training for dentists (104kb, pdf)
  QUIT Victoria and Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch (ADAVB).

• Improving oral health for people with multiple disabilities. A pilot project (164k, pdf)
  SCIOP; Scope (formerly the Spastic Society of Victoria).

• Oral health promotion project (120kb, pdf)
  South West Health Care.

• Improving oral health for older people - an online initiative (280kb, pdf)
  Victorian College of Pharmacy (Monash University), the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (Victorian Branch), Dental Health Services Victoria and the Aged Care Association.

• Oral health for people with a mental illness (284kb, pdf)
  Nth Richmond Community Health Centre Inc.

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