An Analysis of the WHO Global Oral Health Programme's Objectives

This discussion post analyzes the WHO Global Oral Health Programme, focusing on its reorientation towards community-based prevention strategies. The program emphasizes developing health policies at national and community levels to control diet and nutrition-related risks. The WHO aims to promote oral health through evidence-based strategies, working with external programs to empower communities. The post highlights the role of nurses in promoting oral health awareness and integrating oral hygiene practices into patient care. It references the shift in objectives towards a global scale and the importance of strong oral health policies for disease prevention. The program's focus is on improving oral health in developed countries through the implementation of community-based initiatives.

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The WHO global oral health programme (ORH), performing within the department of
non-communicable diseases, has performed a reorientation of its earlier objectives based on
the new prevention strategy of non-communicable diseases. The newer objectives aim at
developing policies at global scale to promote oral health. The reorientation of objectives
leads to simulation of development and further implementation of community based
prevention projects (World Health Organization Oral Health, 2015). Their focus is
emphasized more on the disadvantaged poor populations of countries. The program
emphasizes its focus on developing health policies at national and community level to allow
for controlling of diet and nutrition risk management associated with oral and dental diseases.
Compared with the previous objectives, the new objectives focus more on building
oral health policies to control the oral health risks. The program’s initiatives rely on
modifying risk behaviours in relation to diet and nutrition. The program now aims to apply
evidence-based strategies for oral health promotion and prevention of oral diseases (World
Health Organization Oral Health, 2015). They are more effectively coordinating with external
programmes to apply community empowerment strategies.
The WHO news objectives act as impetus to the improvement of oral health at a
global scale, for the developed countries. The initiative for developing strong oral health
policies provides a strong support for oral health promotion and oral disease prevention. The
nurses are spreading oral health awareness through promoting oral health education; they are
including oral hygiene practices as practice essentials within patient routine to lead healthy
oral life (Tonetti et al., 2017).

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References
Tonetti, M. S., Jepsen, S., Jin, L., & Otomo‐Corgel, J. (2017). Impact of the global burden of
periodontal diseases on health, nutrition and wellbeing of mankind: A call for global
action. Journal of clinical periodontology, 44(5), 456-462.
World Health Organization Oral Health (2015). Retrieved from
https://www.who.int/oral_health/objectives/en/