Smiles 4 Miles
Dental Health Services Victoria’s Smiles 4 Miles has won a Victorian Health Promotion Award.
DHSV was one of eight organisations formally recognised as the State’s champions of promoting good health and wellbeing of Victorians.
Smiles 4 Miles works to improve children's oral health by encouraging good oral hygiene practices among children and their families. Reducing risk factors for poor oral health, particularly in children, can have far reaching additional health benefits long into adulthood. DHSV identified the need to build capacity within early childhood services so that skills and organisational structures developed are sustainable. Many of the risk factors for oral diseases, including diet and hygiene, are also risk factors for other chronic diseases.
Other winners were a program which teaches new parents nutrition for babies, a program to reduce smoking among people experiencing mental illness, workplace health checks with construction workers to identify risk factors for chronic disease, a campaign to raise awareness about the devastating impact of emphysema and an arts project which uses fun and colour to get children physically active.
The Awards were held as part of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation’s 25th Anniversary at a special celebration at Government House.
DHSV was one of eight organisations formally recognised as the State’s champions of promoting good health and wellbeing of Victorians.
Smiles 4 Miles works to improve children's oral health by encouraging good oral hygiene practices among children and their families. Reducing risk factors for poor oral health, particularly in children, can have far reaching additional health benefits long into adulthood. DHSV identified the need to build capacity within early childhood services so that skills and organisational structures developed are sustainable. Many of the risk factors for oral diseases, including diet and hygiene, are also risk factors for other chronic diseases.
Other winners were a program which teaches new parents nutrition for babies, a program to reduce smoking among people experiencing mental illness, workplace health checks with construction workers to identify risk factors for chronic disease, a campaign to raise awareness about the devastating impact of emphysema and an arts project which uses fun and colour to get children physically active.
The Awards were held as part of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation’s 25th Anniversary at a special celebration at Government House.
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