Background: In 2022, the World Health Organization highlighted the alarming state of oral health (OH) worldwide and urged action to include OH in initiatives on noncommunicable diseases. The population needs improved OH skills and attitudes and an adequate level of OH literacy (OHL) and general health literacy (HL). The implementation of health promotion actions in the workplace, which is a part of most people's lives, appears to be an opportunity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Oral health is a fundamental human right and is inseparable and indivisible from overall health and well-being. Oral Health Literacy (OHL) has been proved to be fundamental to promoting oral health and reducing oral health inequalities. To our knowledge, no OHL instrument to evaluate OHL level is currently validated in French language despite the fact it is the fifth most widely spoken languages on the planet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
October 2022
Medication, antibiotics, and immunization are three major and cost-effective medical interventions but their use is balanced. Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) are a cornerstone. This retrospective study aims at analyzing KAP related to these concerns among the public service population in order to establish the basis for the implementation of selective preventive actions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Drug de-escalation is considered in Crohn's disease patients in sustained remission on optimized infliximab treatment.
Aim: We built a model to evaluate the magnitude of cost savings in patients' disease course with or without drug de-escalation guided by infliximab trough levels.
Methods: We designed 4 virtual cohorts (P1-P4) of 10,000 patients in clinical remission on optimized infliximab treatment followed for 2 years.