Overview

• Dental services • Measures taken to safeguard dental public health • Historical and current scientific data related to the epidemiology of oral and dental health • Designing, planning and funding research • Research ethics • Qualitative questionnaires • Conducting a literature review • Interpreting a research paper • Interpreting statistics • Evidence based dentistry • Health needs assessment • Clinical Governance and audit • Overcoming barriers to dental care • Race and ethnicity • Health promotion • Water fluoridation • Screening • Psychological models used to describe health behaviour. • Communication skills

Assessment Strategy

-threshold -Threshold - Grades: D- to D+ Understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module and the outcomes being assessed. Students will be required to achieve a minimum of D- grade in the assignment to in order to pass. -good -Good - Grades: C- to C+ Good understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module and the outcomes being assessed.Very Good Grades: B- to B+ A very good understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module and the outcomes being assessed -excellent -Excellent - Grades: A- to A* Excellent understanding of the facts and principles specific to the topics covered in this module and the outcomes being assessed.

Learning Outcomes

• Analyse the evidence base for the current epidemiology of oral and dental health and the prevalence of specific dental conditions including statistical data, Interpret and evaluate research papers

• Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the principles of health promotion, and be able to evaluate critically the appropriateness of different strategies.

• Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the principles of prevention, including screening, and be able to analyse the benefit of these approaches to health.

• Describe the principles of planning oral health care for communities to meet needs and demands

• Discuss the ways in which social, cultural, environmental and economic factors influence the distribution of health and disease and access to health care

• Explain the dental and wider healthcare systems dental professionals work within including health policy and organisation, delivery of healthcare and equity