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Sam A. Merabi, DMD, Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard University School of Public Health, 69 Marshall St. #2, Somerville, MA 02145, 617-718-0555, sam_merabi@hsdm.harvard.edu

This presentation focuses on a pilot qualitative analysis of how children in Lusaka, Zambia appropriate knowledge about health and illness with the intervention of innovative oral health prevention education. Education theories including trust in testimony, constructivism, and strategic mapping are reviewed with ethnographic findings. Newer education theory viewpoints and ethnographic data are presented to support the use of oral health prevention campaigns as culturally sensitive ways to present much needed biomedical prevention education to Zambian children.

Learning Objectives:

• Define social and cultural barriers Zambians face in the effective delivery of biomedical prevention curriculum.
• Identify the unique oportunity oral health prevention education has for effective learning of biomedical knowledge according to education theories.
• Discuss an oral health campaign model in Zambia that could cross barriers to increase the understanding of biomedical theory of preventing hard hitting diseases like Malaria and HIV/AIDS.

Keywords: Health Education, Prevention

Related Web page: www.childdentalrelief.org

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

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