scholarly journals Obesity and Its Role in Oral Health

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Karels ◽  
Bridgette Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Patients At Risk ◽  
Impact On Treatment

Obesity is a serious public health concern that has reached epidemic proportions. This paper addresses the role obesity plays in several health conditions, in addition to how it negatively affects a person’s oral health. Oral health care providers can have a positive impact on treatment outcomes by recognizing patients at risk for obesity and addressing these issues.

scholarly journals Significance of Pharmacist’s Role in Keeping the People Healthy in Pandemic Situations

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Suruchi Singh ◽  
Satish Kumar Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
The People ◽  
Role Players ◽  
Front Line Workers

As the lockdown situation progressed in COVID-19 pandemic, national pharmacy role players became major front line workers for maintaining accessibility of health care utilities. Pharmacists have been handling in-house deliveries of essentials, reducing burden on health care, along with attending patients with other ailments. Since pharmacists are representatives directly associated with public health concerns, there is need for disseminating awareness in pharmacists to maintain the health conditions of the people living in the pandemic situation. Pharmacy Colleges and representatives of public health interests were subjected to systematic literature review regarding publicly reported pharmacist positions. It is concluded that respondents having much experience are intended to perceive a pharmacist's position as being essential to health care providers relative to the individuals who have less experience. The findings of this research can be beneficial for educating pharmacists in order to achieve the goal of keeping the people healthy in the pandemic situations.

A systematic review-Assessing of the relationship between oral health literacy and dental anxiety among adult patients. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Murtaza Farkhan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Dental Anxiety ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Oral Health Literacy

BACKGROUND Dental anxiety has been reported to be a common problem affecting widespread populations in different societies, hence a global public health concern. So far, there are few studies considering the development of dental anxiety and oral health literacy. OBJECTIVE Dental anxiety has been reported to be a common problem affecting widespread populations in different societies, hence a global public health concern. So far, there are few studies considering the development of dental anxiety and oral health literacy. METHODS This review of the literature used the PRISMA strategy for the review of articles. Articles collected and reviewed between June 2019 and March 2020. A sample determined according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the topic by using Google Scholar, PubMed, Medline via OVID, and Cochrane databases. Studies that have analyzed the effect of oral health literacy and dental anxiety. RESULTS Findings from the majority of the studies suggest that Lack of adequate dental health education may result in a high level of dental anxiety among adults population. On average health literacy levels were lower among particular groups (men, older adults, those in poverty, those who received publically funded insurance, those with lower levels of education and those who failed to finish high school). CONCLUSIONS definitive conclusions from the studies reviewed are not possible due to the differences in the study population, age characteristics considered, methods used and statistical tests performed. Further research is required to pay particular attention to younger patients and patients who report previous negative experiences associated with a dental consultation.

Discrimination and mental health among lesbian, gay and bisexual adults

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S734-S734
Author(s):  
M.A. Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
And Bisexual

IntroductionMental health care is indispensable, has an essential role in development, but mental health issues are a major public health concern worldwide. Sexual minorities, lesbian, gay and bisexual, suffer from prejudice and it determines health inequities, especially for their mental health.ObjectiveTo show the relation between discrimination and mental health issues in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people and to increase understanding of this serious neglected public health problem.MethodsThe search was conducted using Science Direct and Scopus, using the following keywords: “discrimination” and “mental health” and “lesbian” and “gay” and “bisexual”. Using the review of literature, documents in English (articles, official documents, editorial, reviews, clinical trials).DiscussionNumerous studies have identified highest risk behavior, as illicit drug use, sexual risk-taking behaviors and mental health issues among LGB people. Some previous studies propose that health and risk disparities between heterosexual and LGB identifying or behaving people are due to minority stress–that is, that the stigma, discrimination, and violence experienced, leading to stress, thus predisposing illness, disease (worse mental and physical health outcomes) and potentially substance use, which may be used to relieve or escape stress.ConclusionHealth professionals and healthcare organizations must cover these unmet mental health needs if they move to more integrated, coordinated models of care. Health educators should attend to the unique needs of each sexual orientation group when presenting sexual health information and health care providers should undergo diversity and sensitivity training to work more effectively with those groups.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals “Bath salts” intoxication: a new recreational drug that presents with a familiar toxidrome

CJEM ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 171-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Hall ◽  
Christopher Heyd ◽  
Chris Butler ◽  
Mark Yarema
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Synthetic Cathinones ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Recreational Drug ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Emergency Physicians ◽  
Bath Salts ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Laboratory Confirmation

ABSTRACT It is important for emergency physicians to be aware of new psychoactive agents being used as recreational drugs. “Bath salts,” which include 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), mephedrone, and methylone, are the newest recreational stimulants to appear in Canada. There are currently more than 12 synthetic cathinones marketed as bath salts and used with increasing frequency recreationally. Although these drugs are now illegal in Canada, they are widely available online. We present a case report and discuss bath salts intoxication and its anticipated sympathomimetic toxidrome, treatment strategies, and toxicologic analysis, Treatment should not rely on laboratory confirmation. Since the laboratory identification of such drugs varies by institution and toxicologic assay, physicians should not misconstrue a negative toxicology screen as evidence of no exposure to synthetic cathinones. Illicit bath salts represent an increasing public health concern that involves risk to the user, prehospital personnel, and health care providers.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Nanomaterials in the Management of Dentine Hypersensitivity-A Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Dentin Hypersensitivity ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Dentinal Tubules ◽  
Dentine Hypersensitivity ◽  
Sharp Pain ◽  
New Strategy

Dentin hypersensitivity [DH] associated with short sharp pain is a public health concern with a dire consequence to good oral health hygiene. Although different materials and desensitizing toothpastes have flooded the market with claim to provide relief for DH patients by occluding patent dentinal tubules, their occluding abilities have been limited. As such, a new strategy it’s required to effectively manage DH. The use of nanomaterial for dentinal tubules occlusion is predicted to revolutionize the treatment of DH. This article aimed to review the effectiveness of nanomaterials in the management of DH.

scholarly journals Diabetes in tuberculosis patients: An emerging public health concern and the determinants and impact on treatment outcome

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Vivek Nagar ◽  
Sembagamuthu Sembiah ◽  
Devendra Gour ◽  
DineshK Pal ◽  
Arun Mitra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Tuberculosis Patients ◽  
Impact On Treatment

Reframing Fatness: Critiquing ‘Obesity’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethan Evans ◽  
Charlotte Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Policy Language ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
Fat Bodies

Over the last twenty years or so, fatness, pathologised as overweight and obesity, has been a core public health concern around which has grown a lucrative international weight loss industry. Referred to as a ‘time bomb’ and ‘the terror within’, analogies of ‘war’ circulate around obesity, framing fatness as enemy.2 Religious imagery and cultural and moral ideologies inform medical, popular and policy language with the ‘sins’ of ‘gluttony’ and ‘sloth’, evoked to frame fat people as immoral at worst and unknowledgeable victims at best, and understandings of fatness intersect with gender, class, age, sexuality, disability and race to make some fat bodies more problematically fat than others. As Evans and Colls argue, drawing on Michel Foucault, a combination of medical and moral knowledges produces the powerful ‘obesity truths’ through which fatness is framed as universally abject and pathological. Dominant and medicalised discourses of fatness (as obesity) leave little room for alternative understandings.

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