Publications by authors named "Arezoo Ebnahmady"
Background: Despite significant global improvements in oral health, inequities persist. Targeted dental care programs are perceived as a viable approach to both improving oral health and to address inequities. However, the impacts of dental care programs on individual and family oral health outcomes remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Dental diseases have detrimental effects on healthcare systems and societies at large. Providing access to dental care can arguably improve health outcomes, reduce healthcare utilization costs, and improve several societal outcomes.
Objectives: Our objective was to review the literature to assess the impacts of dental care programs on healthcare and societal outcomes.
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- Health behaviors significantly affect individual and population health, leading to community interventions targeting multiple unhealthy habits like smoking and poor diet together.* -
- The study utilizes a rapid realist review to identify factors that successfully lead to changes in tobacco use and other unhealthy behaviors, involving a thorough literature search and evaluation of selected studies.* -
- Findings from this review aim to inform a government-funded project in Canada, focusing on enhancing smoking cessation efforts by integrating strategies to address multiple health behaviors.*
This study was conducted to quantify the implementation of the MPOWER policies and to assess any possible changes across Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries. In this comparative cross-sectional study based on 10 categories mentioned in MPOWER report 2015 a checklist was designed. Seven questions were scored from 0-4 and three from 0-3.
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