BACKGROUND Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPTp) and insecticide treated nets (ITNs) are recommended malaria in pregnancy preventive interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite their cost-effectiveness and seemingly straight-forward delivery mechanism, their uptake remains low. We aimed at describing perceptions of pregnant women regarding malaria and the recommended prevention intervention...

BACKGROUND Dentists are considered role models by the general population in regards to oral hygiene and oral health behavior. This study aimed to access the oral health status of dentists and laypersons, and compare the dentists' practice of preventive dentistry and oral self-care behaviors to that of the laypersons. METHODS This cross-sectional study recruited 472 participants (195 dentists ...

PURPOSE The primary objective of this descriptive study was to assess if and when dental hygiene curricula provide practice opportunities to students in teaching patient/client oral health self-care techniques and whether that experience was prior to their first clinical experience. METHODS Data were collected through the use of descriptive research utilizing a two-page questionnaire containi...

The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) was established more than 2 decades ago as an independent panel of experts in primary care and preventive care with the mandate to conduct rigorous, unbiased assessments of the scientific evidence for the effectiveness of clinical preventive services. The task force uses state-of-the-art methods and explicit criteria for assessing the available evi...

INTRODUCTION Computer simulation offers the ability to compare diverse interventions for reducing cardiovascular disease risks in a controlled and systematic way that cannot be done in the real world. METHODS We used the Prevention Impacts Simulation Model (PRISM) to analyze the effect of 50 intervention levers, grouped into 6 (2 x 3) clusters on the basis of whether they were established or ...

Analyses of the 2002 U.S. National Health and Examination Survey (1,490 adults) examined relationships between alcohol frequency, quantity, and total weekly consumption and preventive and emergency dental service use during the past 12 months. Logistic regression analyses indicated a significant, small percentage of variance in dental service use explained by alcohol use (1%), controlling for p...

The delivery and acceptance of recommended vaccinations is an ongoing challenge for health-care providers and health-care and public health systems, but specific interventions can increase levels of vaccination coverage. The Task Force on Community Preventive Services has conducted systematic reviews of 17 interventions designed to raise vaccination coverage levels in children, adolescents, and...

The effectiveness of prevention to enhance human functioning and reduce psychological distress has been demonstrated (Catalano, Berglund, Ryan, Lonczak, & Hawkins, 2002; Greenberg, Domitrovich, & Bumbarger, 2001; National Research Council & Institute of Medicine, 2009). Successful preventive interventions are typically theory driven, culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate, and deliver...