{"title":"A call for the inclusion of a course on basic oral healthcare practice into the Nigerian nursing and midwifery education curriculum","authors":"K. Kanmodi, P. Kanmodi","doi":"10.29089/2020.20.00162","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"According to the American Dental Association, oral health can be defined as ‘a functional, structural, aesthetic, physiologic and psychosocial state of well-being and is essential to an individual’s general health and quality of life.’1 Oral health is a vital component of general health and wellbeing;2 due to the vitality of oral health to life, the World Health Organization declared oral healthcare as one of the basic components of primary healthcare package.3 Hence, being a basic component of healthcare package, all clinicians, including nurses and midwives, should be able to provide some basic non-invasive oral healthcare services. 2. AIm","PeriodicalId":38569,"journal":{"name":"Polish Annals of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Polish Annals of Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.29089/2020.20.00162","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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According to the American Dental Association, oral health can be defined as ‘a functional, structural, aesthetic, physiologic and psychosocial state of well-being and is essential to an individual’s general health and quality of life.’1 Oral health is a vital component of general health and wellbeing;2 due to the vitality of oral health to life, the World Health Organization declared oral healthcare as one of the basic components of primary healthcare package.3 Hence, being a basic component of healthcare package, all clinicians, including nurses and midwives, should be able to provide some basic non-invasive oral healthcare services. 2. AIm
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