Jong's Community Dental Health / Edition 5

by George Gluck DDS, MPH, Warren M. Morganstein DDS, MPH

Overview

This essential resource gives the reader a practical overview of the expanding and evolving role of the dental professional in the health care community. Coverage includes globalism, diversity, the impact of technology on public health and community dentistry, and information on Hepatitis C and water fluoridation.
•Summary and analysis of the latest manpower predictions on the 21^st century
•The latest public health law
•The most recent updates in health education
•The most current information on managed care in dentistry
•New topics: technology and its impact on public health and community dentistry; globalism; diversity; new information on Hepatitis C

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323014670
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	06/05/2002
Series:	Community Dental Health ( Jong's)
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	7.25(w) x 10.20(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

PART I: DENTAL CARE DELIVER
Dental Public Health: An Overview, Summary of the Surgeon Generals Report on Dentistry, Overview of the U.S. Dental Care Delivery System, An Overview of the Dental Workforce and Medicaid

PART II: POPULATION SHIFTS AND DENTAL HEALTH
Sociocultural Issues and Communication in Oral Health Care, Dental Health and the Aging Population, Early Childhood Caries

PART III: DISTRIBUTION OF DENTAL DISEASE AND PREVENTION Epidemiology and Oral Diseases, Transmissible Disease and the Practice of Dentistry, Community Programs and Prevention, Dental Health Education, Program Planning, Program Evaluation

PART IV: RESEARCH IN DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduction to Biostatistics, Dental Research and EBD and Access to the Literature

PART V: ETHICS AND THE LAW IN COMMUNITY DENTAL HEALTH
Ethical Dilemmas and Cases, The Law and Public Health

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From the Publisher

The book that focuses on the role of the dental public health care professional in the evolving socially conscious health field.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Flavia Lamberghini, DDS (University of Chicago Medical Center)
Description: This book offers an excellent updated version of community dental health topics.
Purpose: It enhances the understanding of dental diseases and their distribution in the community for the dental team member.
Audience: Dentists, assistants, and auxiliaries will be the primary beneficiaries. Physicians, nurses, and the hospital team will also benefit. Dental students and recently graduated dentists in postgraduate education programs should include this book in their reading lists for a general comprehension of dental epidemiology and its applications.
Features: Its contents include dental epidemiology, dental care delivery, bioethics, and the evolution of transmissible disease legislation, focusing on HIV. It also analyzes demographic changes and their potential significance on society, especially those concerning the health of the population. It includes step-by-step materials to implement health education and preventive programs, and it provides tools to learn to analyze scientific literature and the use of informatics.
Assessment: This is an important dental epidemiology source for dental team members. It analyzes the current issues concerning dental diseases and their distribution. It also provides tools for planning community dental health preventive programs. The understanding of epidemiology and its applications in this book has the ultimate goal of improving dental health in the population using a community-based approach.

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