Smiles are Infectious:

The Spread of Tooth Decay Causing Bacteria during the Postnatal Period

Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12

Oral Health Subjects:Oral Disease & Tooth Decay, Prevention, Oral Health in Overall Health, Public Health, Medical-Dental Integration

Keywords: Postnatal, Postpartum, Prevention, Dental Treatment Safety, Access to Care, Oral Health Care, Medical-Dental Integration

Learning Goals:

Understand the importance of caregivers having a healthy mouth to benefit the child.
Describe what actions and behaviors caregivers should take to prevent the spread of oral disease.
Learn about what pediatric oral health information and care different healthcare providers can give during visits and when that information and care should be provided.

Educational Standards

National Health Education Standards

Standard 1

1.12.1 Apply ways to build upon strengths and assets to support individual and collective health and well-being

1.12.2 Analyze the relationships between various dimensions of wellness as related to health outcomes

1.12.3 Evaluate behaviors that reduce or prevent illnesses and injuries

1.12.4 Evaluate practices and behaviors that support health and well-being, including how to manage health conditions

1.12.5 Examine connections between individual health literacy, organizational health literacy, and health outcomes

1.12.6 Analyze how individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental factors are interrelated and impact health outcomes

1.12.7 Analyze the benefits of and barriers to practicing a variety of health behaviors

1.12.8 Examine how self-efficacy, perceived susceptibility, and perceived severity affect health behaviors

1.12.9 Analyze the relationship between access to health care and overall health and well-being

Standard 2

2.12.1 Evaluate the interrelationships and impacts of various influences and health behaviors on health and well-being

2.12.3 Evaluate how individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental influences and factors affect health equity

2.12.4 Formulate strategies to manage influences that impact health and well-being

2.12.5 Use resources to manage influences that impact health and well-being

Standard 3

3.12.1 Analyze the accessibility of trusted adults, other individuals, health professionals, and other resources to promote health and well-being

3.12.3 Evaluate the validity, reliability, and accessibility of health information, products, services, and other resources

3.12.4 Use valid and reliable sources of health information, products, services, and other resources

Standard 4

4.12.3 Demonstrate how to ask for and offer assistance to support the health of self and others

4.12.9 Adapt strategies to communicate with others with different perspectives and values in various contexts

Standard 5

5.12.1 Analyze how health-related decisions may affect personal and community health and well-being from a variety of perspectives

5.12.2 Determine when and why health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process.

5.12.3 Apply an individual, supported, or collaborative decision-making process to maintain or improve health and well-being

5.12.4 Analyze a variety of options based on priorities and potential outcomes when making a health-related decision

5.12.5 Analyze the potential impact of a decision on the health and well-being at individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels

5.12.7 Evaluate the impact of supports and barriers that affect decision making at individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels

5.12.8 Evaluate the effectiveness of health-related decisions

Standard 7

7.12.2 Evaluate practices, behaviors, and other factors supporting individual and collective health and well-being

7.12.3 Adapt practices and behaviors to support individual and collective health and well-being

7.12.4 Demonstrate a variety of practices and behaviors supporting individual and collective health and well-being

Standard 8

8.12.1 Examine a variety of factors that affect advocacy at individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels

8.12.2 Advocate for health issues either collaboratively or individually to promote health and well-being

8.12.3 Customize advocacy skills and strategies for varying audiences and contexts

8.12.4 Demonstrate self-advocacy skills and strategies to promote health and well-being

8.12.5 Demonstrate advocacy skills and strategies to promote health and well-being at interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels

8.12.6 Evaluate the process, outcomes, and impact of advocacy efforts at the individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels

8.12.7 Analyze the role of collaboration among different people in a community to prevent and solve community health issues

Standards for the English Language Arts

Standards

8: Students use a variety of technological and informational resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge

National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies:

Psychology

D2.Psy.8.9-12: Explain the complexities of human thought and behavior, as well as the factors related to the individual differences among people.