Humans exhibit observable behaviours that can be uniquely influenced by individual and environmental factors. Beneficial health behaviours have the capacity to enable a state of wellness. They are behaviour patterns, actions and habits that relate to health maintenance, to health restoration and to health improvement. ("Health behaviours and other risks to health (AIHW)", 2016) Within this definition, there are different categories that behaviours can fall under; medical service usages, compliance with medical regimens and self-directed health behaviours. These behaviours have received substantial amounts of attention and researches have a decent understanding of the factors influencing how and why individuals engage in such behaviors. A healthy …show more content…
mouth and healthy body go hand in hand. Good oral hygiene and oral health can improve your overall health, reducing the risk of serious disease, improve self-confidence and save your teeth from going rotten and falling out. From a young age, brushing my teeth was a behaviour that everyone in my family enforced. It was a critical action that was done twice or more a day. If I didn’t brush my teeth, I was seen as “smelly” which influenced myself to clean my teeth as I didn’t want to be seen as the kid that had bad breath. I still brush my teeth as it is an important hygiene to have. It has been proven to decrease risks of many diseases, including heart disease. Also it helps preserve your teeth and keep them presentable. I have continued with this health behaviour for 17 years as I have been educated and have seen the effects of rotten teeth and that is enough to motivate myself to clean them. To begin with, brushing your teeth is critical as having a clean mouth will decrease your risk of serious health problems such as heart attacks, stroke, poorly controlled diabetes and preterm labour.
According to (Hendrick, 2016), it was found that after adjusting the data for cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, smoking, social class, and family heart disease history, the researchers found that people who admitted to brushing their teeth less frequently had a 70% extra risk of heart disease. Brushing your teeth on a daily basis can reduce your chances of having a heart attack or stroke. The bacteria that accumulates throughout the day and night between brushes can make its way into your bloodstream. When in the blood stream the bacteria triggers inflammation, which causes damage to blood vessels, including the vessels of the heart. Furthermore, gum diseases that are obtained from not brushing the teeth make it harder to control your blood glucose. Gum disease and diabetes have a relationship that is two-way; not only are people with diabetes more susceptible to serious gum disease, but serious gum disease may have the potential to affect blood glucose control and contribute to the progression of diabetes. Moreover, when you breathe, the pathogens that are in your mouth get inhaled right into your lungs. People that brush their teeth will have a less chance of forming fatal pathogens. When the pathogens enter your lungs, it can cause pneumonia, which will require the …show more content…
hospital. Better oral hygiene, through brushing the teeth and flossing, reduced the chance of this happening by up to 40%. This is why brushing your teeth is a beneficial health behaviour. Secondly, keeping your teeth clean and having a healthy oral hygiene will keep your self-confidence high and be a mental positive to yourself.
If your teeth are not cleaned on a consistent basis, your mouth will start to smell and cause halitosis which is mostly caused by sulphur-producing bacteria that normally live on the surface of the tongue and in the throat. Occasionally, these bacteria start to break down proteins at a very high rate and odorous volatile sulphur compounds are released from the back of the tongue and throat. Although halitosis is not infectious, bad breath can affect many people’s daily lives. Statistics from National Smile show that around 2.4% of the adult population suffers from bad breath. One in four adults don’t brush twice a day, including a third of men and one in ten adults admit they regularly forget to brush their teeth. With these statistics, it can be seen that a quarter of adults do not find brush their teeth. This increases their chance for different diseases and also will leave the non-brushers with a mouth that no one wants to smell. As social interaction is important in today’s world, people that have a healthy oral hygiene will excel and feel more confident in person to person activities. With one in ten adults ‘forgetting’ to brush their teeth on a regular basis, it shows how little they care about their health. Most adults don’t realise how important brushing teeth is and don’t realise that you only get one set of teeth. As it is
recommended to brush your teeth at least twice a day, these adults are not giving the minimum requirement of care to their teeth. Lastly, brushing your teeth will reduce the chance of getting tooth decay and having rotten teeth fall out. Not only is this a benefit for your health, but also for your money. With not everyone having private health insurance, the cost for dentist check-ups are not cheap. When the bacteria is allowed to stay in your mouth for long periods of time, it starts to eat away at the enamel of your teeth which can result in cavities. A cavity is a hole that can grow bigger and deeper over time and if you have a cavity, it's important to get it repaired. The biggest are bacteria can impact is the space between your teeth, where your tooth brush bristles can’t reach. This is where flossing plays a big role in fighting tooth decay. With reference to National Smile around 2% of the population have never visited a dentist while 27% of adults only visit their dentist when they have a problem. When a problem has been felt by a person, it normally means that the damage has been done. With regular brushing and regular oral hygiene, many people could save their teeth and save money replacing them. Thus, having good oral hygiene is beneficial for everyone as you can reduce the risk of harmful diseases, keep clean in the mouth and have a positive self-esteem, avoid tooth decay and the loss of teeth. This health behaviour is crucial and must be performed to keep healthy and overall increase your state of wellness.
Since I was a child my mom used to tell me “you needed to brush your teeth at least twice a day because if you don’t do so, you are going loose them forever, and guess what, once you lose them they won’t grow back again”. I am pretty sure that for some of you this words sound very familiar, right? As I grew up I started to wonder why my mom always tell me brushing and flossing is so important? And that is the main reason why I decided to become a dental hygienist, in order to be able to teach my patients its importance.
Personal responsibility is crucial for maintaining wellness, I find the multi-causation disease model diagram according to McKenzie et al, a clear distinction of the components the three circles in the model represents, the outer circle covers factors such as economics, environment , health care system, water quality, infectious disease outbreaks and air pollution, these are factors out of an individual’s control, followed by the middle circle which covers personality, beliefs and behavioral choices, this can be altered through choices and specific behavior patterns with the potential to impact health, the inner circle is genetic endowment, the DNA that we inherit. I have based my argument on the middle circle as the bridge to wellness. The obvious is, the outer and inner circles comprises of factors beyond our control. Encouragingly, personality, beliefs, and behavioral choices that represent the circle in the middle has the potential to bridge the gap between what we cannot control and the behavior modification that can impact our genetic endowment for better or worse. From this observation coupled with the public health goal to educate and motivate the population and communities to become proactive in their well-being, the focus of this paper is to highlight the personal inherent qualities, the intangibles that can be cultivated to the state of homeostasis.
Most people have an aspiration to get rid of a certain unhealthy behaviour or to employ a new health behaviour that would benefit their wellbeing. Some examples include a wish to stop smoking, eating a balanced diet or getting rid of a sedentary lifestyle. Many psychologists have been trying to find a model that would help people fight these kinds of unwanted health behaviours. One of such is the Transtheoretical model of behavioural change (TTM) which will be the main focus of this essay. Specifically, how one’s sedentary lifestyle can be changed by bringing out a systematic exercising routine using TTM.
Halitosis is the medical term for Bad Breath. When people think of bad breath they automatically think that food is the cause of the bad odor. When in reality there are many factors that can lead up to bad breath. Yes food is one of them but there are other reasons as to why a person may be experiencing bad breath or teeth staining. A person may experience bad breath or teeth staining because they may have a health problem that is causing the odor other factors are smoking and chewing tobacco.
Human behavior is a vital component in the sustainment of health and the prevention of illness. For some decades now there has been an increasing attention to the contribution of psychological and social components to improving and changing health. Health specialists have used the help of models of behavior change in order to reduce health risks. Through all these years psychosocial models have been a leading influence in predicting and explaining health behaviors. The most accustomed are the social cognition models. A central principle of social cognition is that people’s social behavior is comprehended by examining their perceptions about their own behaviour
A healthy mouth not only facilitates nutrition of the physical body, but it also develops confidence and sensation of health. Oral conditions effect the general health and disease. Oral hygiene prevents bad breathe, gum diseases and tooth decay. Dentists can diagnose and treat oral affliction at the initial level. This help adults and children to maintain excellent dental health during their lifetime.
When you are practicing good dental hygiene, you will surely be in a much better oral health. The problem is that a lot of us neglect the proper taking care of our teeth and gum. This is when most oral diseases start and also the reason why the dental health category is a multi-million, if not a multi-billion, dollar industry.
This topic was brought to my attention by noticing the lack of dental hygiene among my peers. This doesn’t necessarily just mean having cavities, sore gums, or bad breath. No one likes communicating with another person with bad, stinky breath. Bad breath is also known as halitosis, which is caused by anaerobic bacteria. Anaerobic bacteria is found in our mouth from drinking coffee, eating spicy foods,smoking tobacco, medications, gum diseases and many more.
According to the Healthy People Database, in 2010 the aging population was estimated at 40 million, this number is expected rise to nearly 70 million by the year 2030 (National Center for Health Statistics, 2000). At the forefront of health concerns for this aging population will be the intervention, management and treatment of chronic diseases. This increase in both this specific population as well as the required medical care will place a significant amount of stress on an already distressed healthcare system, which in turn will affect the availability of recourses and costs. Including patients in their self care with strategic health promotion such as encouragement and education geared towards specific socioeconomic groups will be more cost effective and beneficial in the management of chronic disease. Studies indicate that patients involved in self management of disease processes often have better patient outcomes.
Public health is a concept that will always be subject to conflicting opinion. Over the year’s different ‘models’ of health have been formulated in order to categorise public health into dominant areas of cause and effect. The two models in which this essay will be focusing on are the Biomedical Model and the Lifestyle Theory Model. Although both models have equally arguable advantages and disadvantages, it is difficult to state either model as being ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in defining the correct pathway to resolving the central health issues of today.
Over time as individuals age and are faced with access to care issues they may begin to neglect their oral health. As time passes between dental hygiene cleanings or dentist visits the presence of oral disease may begin to increase.
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In order to lead a healthy lifestyle, it is essential that individuals constantly monitor their health. This involves not only physical, but also mental and emotional aspects of the body’s functioning, as they relate to the home, school, work, and leisure environments. If necessary changes are made sooner rather than later, then a stable, balanced and healthy lifestyle will be more consistently maintained. In fact, the World Health Organization says being healthy is feeling that there are few physical or emotional impediments to doing things in your life that you would like. For example, there are many people who are suffering from chronic illnesses who are healthy because they are able to maintain their creativity and vivacity when others cannot. It is evident that self-awareness enc...
There are basic procedures to follow in order to uphold proper oral hygiene including brushing and flossing. The first step in maintaining a healthy mouth is performing proper brushing every day. Brushing properly helps lower the risk of tooth decay and gum disease, which are the major causes of tooth loss (Oral-B). It is recommended by the American Dental Association to brush teeth after every meal or at least twice a day (Edwards). It is important to choose the right toothbrush and toothpaste in order to get the best cleaning. A toothpaste containing fluoride will strengthen teeth and prevent cavities...