Oral Health Program in Kittur Rani Chennamma School, Hoskote

As part of healthcare project in low-income schools, Trinity Care Foundation conducted the program on 2nd February 2019 in Kittur Rani Chennamma School, Hoskote Taluk, Karnataka, India. Visit https://flic.kr/s/aHskRVtKTQ

Trinity Care Foundation in association with Krishnadevaraya College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Bangalore provided oral health education, Dental check-ups, Dental treatments, referral services and oral health kits to 210 government students free of cost. Scaling was done for 19 students and Dental fillings for 6 students.

If you love to partner, volunteer or support this public health dentistry project,  Write to us with your resume [ support@trinitycarefoundation.org ] View the public health dentistry project : https://flic.kr/s/aHskCr6qNu

Trinity Care Foundation is a Non-Profit Organization, has the Trust registration, PAN, TAN, 12A, 80G, Professional tax and FCRA. It is registered with NITI Ayog, Government of India. It is National Health Mission Partner in Karnataka, India.

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School Oral Health Program

School Oral Health Program in Bangalore !!!

1. Poor oral health and untreated infections can have a significant impact on school aged children.
2. Children have trouble eating and sleeping, and can experience speech impairments, trouble focusing and low self esteem.
3. Dental disease can greatly reduce a child’s capacity to succeed in the educational environment.
4. Children are often unable to verbalize their dental pain.
5. Teachers may notice a child who is having difficulty attending to tasks or who is demonstrating the effects of pain (anxiety, fatigue, irritability, depression and withdrawal from normal activities).
6. School nurses report a range of oral health problems such as dental caries, gingival disease, malocclusion (poor bite), loose teeth and oral trauma.
7. Children who are missing teeth have to limit their food choices because of chewing problems, which may result in nutritionally inadequate diets.
8. Inadequate nutrition during childhood can have a detrimental effect on children’s cognitive development and productivity in adulthood.
9. The Trinity Care Foundation Oral Health Program supports oral health promotion and dental disease prevention in school-based programs for students in low-income schools from 1st standard through 10 standard [ 6 yrs to 16 yrs].
10. The Trinity Care Foundation Oral Health Programs currently funds 59 schools throughout Bangalore Urban District, Karnataka state, India with small grants to promote oral health education, dental check-ups, treatments, oral health kits and provide a referral service to higher centers. 
11. Some schools also receive additional grant money to provide dental sealants ! 

If you intended to partner or support this public health dentistry initiative in Karnataka state, India,  To Connect with us, ✍️ to [ support@trinitycarefoundation.org ] ✍️

Trinity Care Foundation is a Public Health Organization, has the Trust registration, PAN, TAN, 12A, 80G, Professional tax and FCRA. It is registered with NITI Ayog, Government of India. It is National Health Mission Partner in Karnataka state, India.

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School Oral Health Program || Internship

Trinity Care Foundation calls for interns who are genuinely interested to travel, learn and work in Government Schools in Bangalore,Karnataka.

The internship offers a rare opportunity to work hands-on in schools, learn from pubic health professionals and help those in need of medical attention. The work will focus on issues pertaining to school students and cover dental check-up, dental treatment and oral health education. The internship is for 1 month. 

Eligibility

The internship is open to Dentists and Dental students of Indian origin. Ability to converse in the local language is a must. Above all, we welcome those with curiosity to explore and humility to learn.
Location: In and around Bangalore city, Karnataka State, India.
Period : 24.August.2016 to 30.October.2016

Type of work

The team will cover Government schools in and around Bangalore, and undertake the following activities:

1. Pre-screening of students for dental caries, oral lesions, facial deformities, etc., 
2. Facilitating dental intervention for those shortlisted through the pre-screening
3. Impart awareness on oral health issues, ill effects of tobacco and tooth brushing techniques to students of government schools.
4. Undertake training for teachers and health workers to carry forward the work.

Here's a video https://youtu.be/K_1hBL-8CLU about public health dentistry initiatives by our team ! 

Orientation for interns : Selected interns for Karnataka will have to attend a day orientation program in Bengaluru on 12.August.2016.  

Last date for application: Bangalore, Karnataka : 5.August.2016
Those interested, please get in touch with us by writing to us with their resume to our, 
Email id: [ trinitycarefoundation@gmail.com ]

We will organize for the intern’s travel and food during the period of internship.Certificates will be provided to those who have successfully completed the internship.

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Internship for School Health

Trinity Care Foundation calls for female interns who are genuinely interested to travel, learn and work in Government Schools in Bangalore,Karnataka.

The internship offers a rare opportunity to work hands-on in schools, learn from pubic health professionals and help those in need of medical attention. The work will focus on issues pertaining to school students and cover dental check-up, dental treatment and oral health education. The internship is for 1 month.

Eligibility

The internship is open to Dentists and Dental students of Indian origin. Ability to converse in the local language is a must. Above all, we welcome those with curiosity to explore and humility to learn.

Location: Bangalore,Karnataka
Languages: For those interested to work, ability to converse in Kannada is required.
Duration: Nov 18-Dec 18, 2015

Dental Health Education

Dental Treatments

Type of work

The team will cover a minimum of 15 government schools in outskirt's of Bangalore, and undertake the following activities:

1. Pre-screening of students for dental caries, oral lesions, facial deformities, etc., 
2. Facilitating dental intervention for those shortlisted through the pre-screening
3. Impart awareness on oral health issues, ill effects of tobacco and tooth brushing techniques to students of government schools.
4. Undertake training for teachers and health workers to carry forward the work.

Orientation for interns : Selected interns for Karnataka will have to attend a day orientation program in Bengaluru on Nov 11.

Last date for application: Bangalore, Karnataka : Nov 9, 2015

We will organize for the intern’s travel and food during the period of internship.Certificates will be provided to those who have successfully completed the internship.

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Tricky Teenage Subjects: Effective Adolescent Health Education

Health education is an absolutely vital factor in long-term health, as well as the health of future generations. Educating children about health can be as simple as teaching them about basic hygiene, such as the washing of hands after going to the toilet or how to brush one’s teeth effectively. However, some health education involves more complex subjects, such as drug abuse or HIV; topics which need especial attention when dealing with older children and young adolescents. These health risks are among the biggest threats facing our youth, and school health programmes are one of the most effective ways to positively impact on long-term public health goals, according to the World Health Organisation.

HIV and AIDS

Because of breakthroughs in treatment options, HIV and AIDS are no longer in every headline, unlike only a few short years ago. While this can make it harder to impress upon students how serious the impact of the virus can be, it is nonetheless essential to convey the message effectively. Despite the fact that many associate the virus with intravenous drug use and homosexual intercourse – and while these are risk factors in transmission of HIV – 88.2% of transmission cases in 2011-2012 were via heterosexual intercourse. Nearly 200,00 HIV-related deaths were reported in 2011-2012, and more than 120,000 new cases of infection were recorded. Education about safe sexual practices, the relationship between HIV transmission and drug use, the availability of health services such as HIV testing and free condoms is vital to protect teenagers against this disease.

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

For many teenagers, drug abuse is an easy trap to fall into. Many children grow up seeing various types of substance abuse in their communities, and have not been educated sufficiently about the dangers of drugs, including alcohol and tobacco. The easy availability of cheap “poppers” like aerosol inhalants, and the lax attitude of some retailers towards selling alcohol and tobacco to minors, make the dangers of substance abuse all the more prevalent and damaging. According to the World Health Organisation, alcohol is responsible for approximately 2.5 million deaths every year, which is nearly 4% of deaths worldwide. In India, alcohol-related deaths are on the rise, with 5,478 deaths caused by alcohol in 2012, 21% more than the 4547 cases in 2011. Traffic accidents are a primary cause of alcohol-related deaths, along with liver and brain complications. Toxic or contaminated home-made alcohol is also responsible for deaths from poisoning. Drug abuse is also highly prevalent; according to the World Health Organisation, there are as many as a million known heroin addicts in India, with an estimated further four million who are not registered in treatment programmes. Heroin,cannabis, and Indian-produced pharmaceutical drugs are the most commonly abused drugs. Although teenagers can be inclined to think of experimenting with substances as fun and exciting, it is important to impress upon them not only the dangers of substance abuse, but also to teach them how to recognize the signs of substance abuse in themselves and their peers, and how to seek help.

Sexual Safety

Sexual Safety extends much further than worrying about HIV and AIDS, and includes the risks of other sexually transmitted infections, as well as the risks of teen pregnancy. India, where many girls are married before the age of 19, has a very high rate of teenage pregnancy, which results in a loss of education for women, as well as physical health risks. Adolescent girls under the age of 16 who fall pregnant are four times as likely to die than women in their twenties, while the infant mortality rates of teenage pregnancies are approximately 50% higher than the rates of older women, according to the World Health Organisation. While the cultural aspect of young marriage is not something to be addressed in a health class, the health risks of unintended or young pregnancy are, and educating both young women and men about reproductive health is one of the most effective ways to begin to turn the tide. Additionally, the problem of sexual violence is an important one, and while girls are often taught to try to avoid situations in which they could encounter rape and other forms of sexual violence, it is important to impress upon adolescent boys, too, that these crimes hold severe consequences for them. 

Trinity Care Foundation is a Non Governmental Organization focusing on Craniofacial Surgeries, School Health Programs and Outreach Health Programs in Karnataka, India.

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Public Health Dentistry

Public Health Dentistry is that part of dentistry providing leadership and expertise in population-based dentistry, oral health surveillance, policy development, community-based disease prevention and health promotion, and the maintenance of the dental safety net.  

Dental public health is the science and the art of preventing oral disease, promoting oral health, and improving the quality of life through the organised efforts of society.

The discipline covers a wide range and includes such topics as:

1. oral epidemiology,
2. oral health services research,
3. preventive dentistry - especially in relation to communities,
4. oral health education and promotion,
5. clinical research - with particular emphasis on the care of special groups,
6. behavioural sciences related to dentistry,
7. decision theory,
8. quality of life
9. risk analysis
10. ethics and oral health economics
11. quality assessment

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Oral Health Promotion for Women in Rural Karnataka, India through Women Self Help Groups - an IIM Model

Oral Health Promotion for Women in Rural Karnataka, India through Women Self Help Groups.

Problem: What problem is this project trying to address?

Health Disparity is universal phenomenon and true for oral health also. The oral health disparity exists in terms of rich and poor, rural and urban and between men and women. Main reason being lack of awareness, inequitable distribution of service providers, who, cost of care, unavailability of services and no budgetary allocation or oral health policy at national or regional level in India . This situation makes the oral health services unaffordable and way beyond the reach of our rural population. Thus, primary prevention of oro-dental problems through education, and making available of services and empowering women population to afford these services is the need of the hour and it is high time to activate such strategic programmes for this population.

Solution: What is the proposed solution? 

Increasing the knowledge : to create awareness among the rural population the women self help group will be given health education every Friday in a month , as a routine programme for one year which will cover 57 SHGs and a population of 1425 in around Halasuru. To improve the access to services: The women attending this education programme will get the free screening and the treatment at RHTC a satellite center from M.R.Ambedkar Dental College in Halasuru village, Kanakapura taluk, Ramnagara District. Monitor the Cost: For the sustainability of this programme with the help of funding from the Asoka a micro insurance plan will be provided for these women who can avail the treatment in the centers free of cost.

Oral Health Promotion for Women in Rural Karnataka, India through Women Self Help Groups - an IIM Model 

Trinity Care Foundation is a Non-Profit Organization, has the Trust registration, PAN, TAN, 12A, 80G, Professional tax and FCRA. It is registered with NITI Aayog, Government of India. It is National Health Mission Partner in Karnataka, India.

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