Advancing a programme theory for community-level oral health promotion programmes for humanitarian migrants: a realist review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Humanitarian migrants often suffer from poor health, including oral health. Reasons for their oral health conditions include difficult migration trajectories, poor nutrition and limited financial resources. Oral health promotion is crucial for improving oral health-related quality of life of humanitarian migrants. While community-level oral health promotion programmes for humanitarian migrants have been implemented (eg, in host countries and refugee camps), there is scant literature evaluating their transferability or effectiveness. Given that these programmes yield unique context-specific outcomes, the purpose of this study is to understand how community-level oral health promotion programmes for humanitarian migrants work, in which contexts and why.

Methods and an

SUBMITTER: Eslamiamirabadi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8811556 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature