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Oral Health Campaign

Oral health promotion campaign in the kingdom
“Your oral health is our concern”
November 2005- February 2006

One of our services to the community as an oral health care provider is to change the wrong knowledge, believes and skills of the clients by provide them with the correct information and instructions regarding oral health maintaining . This year we as Oral health service department in the ministry of health, Bahrain Dental Hygienist Association and the Royal College of surgeons in Edinburgh are going to coordinate an oral health campaign. We decide to reach different groups in the community and serve them as oral health providers’ personals. Our target groups are:

  • School Children age 10-12

  • Handicapped

  • Elderly

  • The idea to accomplish our main goals and objectives is to make an event which includes different activities that promote oral health awareness to the participants.

    Oral Health Promotion Campaign is organized into three events as following:

        1. Al Seef Mall event for children and families:

    Main goal: To educate the children aged 10-12 years old and the families about oral health throw different kinds of media .

    Objectives:

  • To provide children with the correct information regarding oral hygiene by using cartoon movies.

  • To enable the children to differentiate between good and bad food and its association to developing dental decayed.

  • To built their skills in the proper methods of using oral hygiene tools.

  • To influence children to visit dental clinics for oral health maintenance.

  • To build good relationship with dental team.



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    Target groups: school children aged 10-12 years old and families visited Seef Mall


    Date and time: 16/11/2005 started from 10:00am – 12:30 pm and it is privet invitation to 150 school children and it will be open to the public from 12:30 – 10:00 pm and the location is Al Hawag area first floor entrance will be gate 6.


    The man power is:

  • Dental Hygienists and Dentists from Ministry Of Health

  • School teachers
     

    It will include the following activity:

  • official speech and opening ceremony

  • walking activity

  • oral health educational movie in cinema hole

  • what did you learn from the movie compotation

  •  Medical and oral test disk (BP, length, Blood sugar, osteoporoses density tests and oral health instruction and consultation.

  • Dental hygienist media work exhibition

  • Q and A compotation for the children and their families.

    Al Seef Mall event schedule:

    Time

    Topic

    Audiences

    10:00

    MOH speech

    For privet invitation

    School children & VIP

    10:10

    BhDHA speech

    10:20

    Lion’s club speech

    10:30

    Oral Health Educational Movies

    11:00-11:30

    What did you learn comp.

    12:00-12:20

    B.W.M. & winner announcement

    12:30 -1:00

    Lunch break

    Time

    Topic/activity

    Audiences

    11:30 A.M.-9:30 P.M.

    -Dental hygienist exhibition

    -Weight, length, B.P. Test. Osteoporoses density test

    For public

     

    Note : al Seef Mall event for children will have tow part the morning program which is the opining ceremony and it is privet invitation that starts in 10 :00am- 12:30 pm ends with the walking activity or festival that promote and announce to the children and their families who visit the Seef mall about the oral health educational exhibition which is healed for the public from 12:30pm-9:30 pm and located in the first floor the area opposite to Al Hawag and The Italy Rest runt.

    2) Shikan Al Farsi event for Disabled children 

    The main goal: to elevate the awareness in oral health status and get the parents involved in this activity for the benefit of good oral health to those special needs children. 

    Objectives:

  • To differentiate between healthy and bad food and its effect in developing tooth decayed.

  • To built the correct knowledge regarding oral hygiene.

  • To influence disabled children to visit dental clinic for treatment.

  • To encourage disabled children to build good relationship between them and the dental team.

      Date: 11/12/2005

    This activity will be held in Shikan Alfarcy center and targeted for the special needs children how can communicate positively to the event.

     The target group will be from:

  • Shikan al Farsi Center

  • Hope institute

  • Rehabilitation Center” Dar alTaheel”

  • Handicapped Center  

  • Kind of rehabilitations:

  • Speech and hearing disability

  • Flight physically and mentally retarded disability

  • Down Syndrome

     Note: The participant’s student should be able to communicate positively to the event.

     The program will include:

  • role play and songs

  • educational activates games and competition

  • art work of the special needs children in oral health

  • medical test and consultation disk for the parents

  • oral health media of the dental hygienist work

  • font color="#808080">oral health educational film display

        The man power is:

  • Dental Hygienists and Dentists from Ministry Of Health 

  • Teachers for the disabled children.

    3) Al – Dair Health Center event for elderly  

        The main goal: to elevate the awareness of keeping good oral hygiene and its association with the overall health for the elderly.

     Objectives:

  • To built the elderly knowledge and skills regarding oral hygiene maintenance.

  • To gain knowledge in oral health states and association with elderly health problem and some drugs consumption. 

       To build good relationship between elderly a

     

       Date: January 2006

       Targeted group: elderly aged 60+

       Place Of event: Al – Dair Health Center

    The program will include the following activities:

  • Oral health examination and charting

  • Oral health care role play

  • Old songs that have relation- ship with healthy teeth

  • Gift given as complementation and joy.

    The man power is:

  • Dental Hygienists and Dentists from Ministry Of Health 

  • Staff Nurse in elderly homes and centers


    This entire events is organized and directorate by organizing committee members:

  • DH. Jamella Ali (Dental hygienist dubiety supervisor ( head of OC))

  • DH. Elham AL arrayed( Oral Health Educational chairperson in BhDHA)

  • DH. Abdul Shaheed Ali (BhDHA president)

  • DH. Zahra Ashor (Triggered chairperson  in BhDHA)

  • DH. Hashmia S. Hashim (Dental Hygienist program coordinator for  northern governorate district)

    Supervised by: Dr. Abbas Al Fardan  Oral Health Services head department .

    Logo art work:DH. Elham Al Arrayed 


       
    The man power is :
    Dental Hygienists and Dentists from Ministry Of Health 

    The Oral Health Promotion Campaign is a creative way of announcement to the Bahrain British Dental Congress which will be held in 18-22 /February 2006 as celebrating the Quincentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The oral health services department in the Ministry of Health hope to provide the Bahraini community; the public and the dental professional a benefit from organizing an important event in the kingdom and that is throw organizing oral health promotion campaign events to the public and the British Bahraini Congress for Dental Professionals . We hope from all the companies that support those kinds of events, the scientific and community services activities to share with us accomplishing those events successfully, and this will not succeed without your financial support

     


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