| dc.creator | Macnab, A.J | |
| dc.creator | Radziminski, N. | |
| dc.creator | Budden, H. | |
| dc.creator | Kasangaki, H. | |
| dc.creator | Mbabali, M. | |
| dc.creator | Zavuga, R. | |
| dc.creator | Gagnon, F.A. | |
| dc.date | 2012-02-15T11:10:52Z | |
| dc.date | 2012-02-15T11:10:52Z | |
| dc.date | 2010-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-04T12:32:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-04T12:32:53Z | |
| dc.identifier | Macnab A.J., Radziminski N., Budden H., Kasangaki A., Zavuga R., Gagnon F.A., Mbabali M. (2010). Brighter smiles Africa - translation of a Canadian community-based health-promoting school program to Uganda. Education for Health, 23(2) | |
| dc.identifier | 1357-6283 | |
| dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10570/430 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10570/430 | |
| dc.description | Project goal: To adapt a successful Canadian health-promoting school initiative to a Ugandan context through international partnership. Rationale: Rural children face many health challenges worldwide; health professionals in training understand these better through community-based learning. Aboriginal leaders in a Canadian First-Nations community identified poor oral health as a child health issue with major long-term societal impact and intervened successfully with university partners through a school-based program called “Brighter Smiles”. Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (MUK) sought to implement this delivery model for both the benefit of communities and the dental students. Key steps/hurdles addressed: MUK identified rural communities where hospitals could provide dental students with community based learning and recruited four local schools. A joint Ugandan and Canadian team of both trainees and faculty planned the program, obtained ethics consent and baseline data, initiated the Brighter Smiles intervention model (daily at-school toothbrushing; in-class education), and recruited a cohort to receive additional bi-annual topical fluoride. Hurdles included: challenging international communication and planning due to inconsistent internet connections; discrepancies between Canadian and developing world concepts of research ethics and informed consent; complex dynamics for community engagement and steep | |
| dc.description | British Columbia Children’s Hospital Centre for International Child Health | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | |
| dc.subject | Oral health | |
| dc.subject | Rural health | |
| dc.subject | Health professionals - Training | |
| dc.subject | Dental services | |
| dc.subject | Tooth brushing | |
| dc.title | Brighter smiles Africa - translation of a Canadian community-based Health-promoting school program to Uganda | |
| dc.type | Journal article, peer reviewed | |
