Module 1: Dental Public Health Principles
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module, you should be able to:
● Define dental public health.
● Identify the links between clinical practice and dental public health.
● Outline the criteria used to determine if a condition is a public health problem.
● Describe the central arguments presented by the critiques of the biomedical approach to health care delivery.
● Describe the underlying range of factors that determine people’s health.
● Outline the nature of, and explanations for, inequalities in health.
● Describe the basis for the common risk factor approach
● Outline the need for an upstream public health approach in promoting population health and reducing inequalities.
Presentation
Please find the following PowerPoint presentations of the Lecture (1/2) and the Lecture (2/2).
Resources
Please read the following references before your lecture/final exam:
1. (Required)
Book: Essential Dental Public Health (Edition: 2nd; ISBN: 9780199679379)
Author(s): Blánaid Daly, Paul Batchelor, Elizabeth Treasure, and Richard Watt
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Principles of Public Health - Pages 3-13
Chapter 2: Determinants of Health - Pages 14-22
Chapter 3: Definitions of Health - Pages 23 - 36
2. How should we define health? (In case you are unable to access the article from the BMJ website, you can download the article PDF from here)