Introduction to the special issue: Advancing the behavioural and social sciences to promote oral health.
Introduction to the special issue: Advancing the behavioural and social sciences to promote oral health.
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特刊简介:推进行为和社会科学以促进口腔健康。
DOI:
10.1111/cdoe.12833
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Randall,CameronL
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作者:
McNeil,DanielW;Randall,CameronL
This special issue of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology constitutes a published proceedings and extension of the 2020 Behavioural and Social Oral Health Sciences Summit. Introducing this special issue, we offer a brief historical perspective, a description of the process of events that influenced our work and culminated in the Summit and these published proceedings, and an overview of the articles included. It has been with great enthusiasm and considerable humility that we have championed this special issue and the activities and processes that preceded it, hopefully allowing this initiative to blossom. Truly, we are “standing on the shoulders of giants”, 1 some of whom came well before us in this field and others to whom we are grateful for contributing articles to this special issue. From the very beginnings of the Summit planning, our efforts, and those of our colleagues, were designed to look to the future. Rather than being only an accounting of what is happening at present, we envisioned that the Summit, the Consensus Statement on Future Directions for the Behavioural and Social Sciences in Oral Health2 that emanated from it, and this special issue would provide a roadmap of possible and important future directions for the field.Although behavioural and social factors have been acknowledged as inextricably intertwined with dentistry since its very beginnings (eg patient interaction, expectations of patents, coping with pain), formal scientific inquiry in these domains has been much more recent. Beginning in the 1960s, Lois Cohen—later labeled as the ‘principal architect’of the social and behavioural sciences in dentistry3—and others developed a research agenda for what would become an entire field in its own right. This progress has continued for decades to the present. The science and its applications to practice evolved into the 1970s and 1980s. In the USA, this work came together in the first national conference on ‘behavioural dentistry’in 1977. 4 A second national conference took place just 2 years later. 5 Coincidentally, these two