DENH 2030 - Community Dental Health and Epidemiology

1. Barriers to dental health care
2. Dental public health
3. Costs, financing, and methods of payment of services in dentistry
4. Effectiveness and costs of community health programs
5. Methods of care delivery in the United States and around the world
6. Biostatistics
7. Career options, including dental public health
8. Components of a research article and research design
9. Cultural competence
10. Dental epidemiology and dental indices
11. Principles of education and lesson planning

1. define public (community) health and dental public health.

2. differentiate the processes in the delivery of dental care in the public health and private sectors.

3. outline the science of epidemiology and attribute indices used to determine distribution of oral disease.

4. integrate prevention methods and strategies as it applies to oral disease.

5. deconstruct barriers to dental health care.

6. design a dental health education program utilizing the principles of evidence-based scientific literature and dental health education.

7. integrate elements of scientific theories, research, and biostatistics into educational, preventive, and therapeutic oral health services.

8. generate a community outreach event promoting oral health education to an underserved population.

9. determine the distribution of dental personnel as it relates to the treatment need, demand, and utilization.

10. differentiate the financing of dental care and the methods of reimbursement by government, non-profit and private entities.

11. outline legislative initiatives addressed to alleviate the shortage of care providers.

12. determine career options for delivery of care in the public health arena.
Competency 1 (1-6)
None
Competency 2 (7-10)
None

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