TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting Inclusion Oral Health
T2 - Social Interventions to Reduce Oral Health Inequities
AU - Freeman, Ruth
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - To advance our understanding of inclusion oral health and to address the impact of social exclusion upon oral health, this group of papers sets out to provide an argument for the need for social and community-based interventions, theoretically underpinned by pluralistic definitions of evidence-based practice and the radical discourse of health promotion for those experiencing exclusion. Using the definition and framework of inclusion oral health, these papers illustrate the requirement for mixed-methods research, the incorporation of experts by experience in the research process, and the need for co-design and co-produced interventions. The papers in this Special Issue present various sources of evidence used to transform top-down into bottom-up community-based interventions for people experiencing homelessness, people in custody, and families residing in areas of high social deprivation. The first two papers provide the evidence for extreme oral health in those experiencing exclusion, and the final four papers report on the implementation and evaluation of social or community-based interventions. This collection of research papers will be of interest to all those wishing to reduce health inequities. This will be achieved by focusing on prevention, adopting a common risk factor agenda, and incorporating co-design and co-production elements into interventions, to tackle the oral health inequities felt by those most excluded in our societies.
AB - To advance our understanding of inclusion oral health and to address the impact of social exclusion upon oral health, this group of papers sets out to provide an argument for the need for social and community-based interventions, theoretically underpinned by pluralistic definitions of evidence-based practice and the radical discourse of health promotion for those experiencing exclusion. Using the definition and framework of inclusion oral health, these papers illustrate the requirement for mixed-methods research, the incorporation of experts by experience in the research process, and the need for co-design and co-produced interventions. The papers in this Special Issue present various sources of evidence used to transform top-down into bottom-up community-based interventions for people experiencing homelessness, people in custody, and families residing in areas of high social deprivation. The first two papers provide the evidence for extreme oral health in those experiencing exclusion, and the final four papers report on the implementation and evaluation of social or community-based interventions. This collection of research papers will be of interest to all those wishing to reduce health inequities. This will be achieved by focusing on prevention, adopting a common risk factor agenda, and incorporating co-design and co-production elements into interventions, to tackle the oral health inequities felt by those most excluded in our societies.
KW - inclusion oral health
KW - social exclusion
KW - homelessness
KW - prisons
KW - undocumented migrants
KW - social and community-based interventions
KW - Social
KW - Social exclusion
KW - Prisons
KW - Homelessness
KW - Community-based interventions
KW - Undocumented migrants
KW - Inclusion oral health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078531380&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/dj8010005
DO - 10.3390/dj8010005
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 31936009
SN - 2304-6767
VL - 8
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Dentistry Journal
JF - Dentistry Journal
IS - 1
M1 - 5
ER -