Reorienting Oral Health Promotion through Systems Thinking
Researchers applied systems thinking to oral health promotion, revealing that current efforts focus narrowly on individual behaviour change rather than addressing structural and societal factors that determine oral disease outcomes. They propose the Action Scales Model as a framework to guide reorientation toward deeper system-level changes in goals, beliefs, and organisational structures.
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