DEHY1440

This course introduces students to the disciplines and basic principles of dental public health, epidemiologic methods, and biostatistical measurements and analysis. The course will include identification of current issues in community dental health and review current community health practices. Emphasis will be placed on comparing and contrasting community health practices with those in private clinical settings. Students will be introduced to current literature in the field of community dental health through evaluation and critiquing of journal articles.
Student Learning Outcomes:

• Compare and contrast the histories of public health dentistry and public health medicine.
• Utilize dental indices and describe how they can be used for evaluation.
• Compose a written grant designed around the dental hygiene process of care as it relates to dental public health.
• Identify the barriers in dental public health and the dental needs as related to age, sex, race, income, and geographic regions.
• Evaluate different types of research designs and describe how to measure, analyze and interpret data.