Community led: celebrating wellness with a smile
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dental caries is the most common chronic childhood disease in Canada and creates a significant burden on both human and financial costs. In Canada, the annual cost of dental day surgery for children is $21.2 million. The objective of this study was to explore and address the strengths and barriers related to the provision of oral health services in an Indigenous community in northern Saskatchewan. This community-based participatory research project focused on developing authentic relationships with the community. This research is novel because it is community-led and from the perspective of Indigenous people. Descriptive statistics were undertaken to describe the 38 participants. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with elders, healthcare providers, teachers and parents/guardians of elementary school-aged children; and inductive, thematic analysis was undertaken with the qualitative data. The most commonly identified themes included: community resilience, the need to improve oral health literacy and skills and the mitigation of barriers to access care. The research process included co-creating tools with the community that built upon strengths, creating opportunities for change, generated solutions and transforming the health system the community accessed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".