Health visiting teams and children's oral health: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent policies have recommended early-life interventions to prevent caries. The four nations of the UK each have a national universal children's health programme, through which health visitors and their wider team (HVTs) promote health in the early years. HVT visits offer an opportunity to support parents to improve their child's oral health. A scoping review was conducted to provide a descriptive synthesis of the current literature related to the role of HVTs in improving the oral health of children 0-5 years old and to identify significant gaps for future research. This review informed the feasibility study of the First Dental Steps Intervention, a targeted health visitor-led infant oral health intervention in England.

Methods

Electronic database searches for p

SUBMITTER: El-Yousfi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9741786 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature