Joanna Merckx, Jonas Crèvecoeur, Kristiaan Proesmans, Naïma Hammami, Hilde Denys, Niel Hens
COVID-19 surveillance in the Flemish school system: development of systematic data collection within the public health school system and descriptive analysis of cases reported between October 2020 and June 2021
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oral health essential component persons general health wellbeing influenced many factors include individual aspects oral health literacy oral health behaviour aim study investigate association oral health literacy behaviour physical oral health populationbased crosssectional study data 5510 subjects enrolled hamburg city health study hchs 2016 2018 mean age 621 years 507 women evaluated physical oral health assessed using 14item physical oral health index phox newly developed 10item questionnaire based oral health literacy adult questionnaire 5th german oral health study used determine oral health literacy behaviour sum score 10 questions related oral health literacy behaviour significantly correlated phox sum score r 023 p 0001 increase one point total score oral health literacy behaviour associated increase phox sum score 145 points average association decreased marginally integrating potential confounders age education higher oral health literacy better oral health behaviour associated better physical oral health oral health literacy behaviour important targets dental education efficiently sustainably improve oral health general population