Fones Model Of Dental Hygiene

In order to develop a dental hygiene public health program, a dental hygiene most evaluate past programs and find a model or paradigm that he/she is going to use to effectively assist the target population. There are four program planning paradigms that can be used:
1. Fones’ model for prevention on disease: Fones strongly believed that prevention was the key to help those in need, especially children through the school system. He stated that children were suffering from caries that was a preventable disease.
2. The logic model: it can be as a tool to plan or evaluate a program. It starts by finding the resources, then identifying the programs or strategies and determining the effect on the communities, and measuring the results.
3. The PRECEDE-PROCEED model: it focus on a change process that focuses on outcome. First, the final result or outcome is identified. Next, the factors that stand in the way of achieving the result and the ways to change those factors are identified. Then a program is implemented to obtain the desirable outcome. Following the implementation, it is important to determine if the process used to achieve the goal is being followed and if it is effective.
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The comprehensive plan: it is to evaluate state organization and policies. There are seven steps that are used to form a committee that will determine the goals and the resources, then it will plan and conduct assessment to collect data. This data is evaluated and used to plan programs, advocate for new policies, or for education.
The steps of the dental hygiene process of care are used as paradigm by dental hygienists when planning dental health programs. The steps in the process of care