Developing a WHO African Region mOral Health Curriculum for Community Health Workers.

ABSTRACT: Background: Training allied health professionals in oral health promotion and disease prevention, and integrated into noncommunicable disease (NCD) management, has been shown to improve access to essential oral health services. Oral diseases in the WHO African region are a significant public health problem, and trained dental professionals are scarce. Objectives: The WHO African Regional Office (WHO AFRO) aims to create a novel tiered oral health workforce, beginning with community health worker (CHW) training on oral health, and utilizing combined in-person and virtual/digital learning through mobile technologies (mOral Health). Successful scale of the program will assist in improving the oral health knowledge, skills, and behaviors of CHWs in Africa, as part of their essent

SUBMITTER: Seymour B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12330801 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature