Week 2: Dental Public Health Interventions
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this week you should be able to:
● Describe the natural history of the disease.
● Identify the levels of prevention with examples applied to oral diseases.
● Describe the objectives and types of primordial prevention.
● Outline the steps of strategy design.
● Describe the whole population approach, its advantages, and disadvantages.
● Describe the at-risk approach, its advantages, and disadvantages.
● Describe the basis for the common risk factor approach
● Outline the types of screening programs.
● Calculate the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of any screening test.
● Outline the principles of screening programs.
● Design a strategy to tackle a major oral health problem.
Presentation
Please find the following PowerPoint presentations of the Lecture (1/2) and the Lecture (2/2).
Lecture Recording
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 4: Public health approaches to prevention - Pages 37-47
2. (Optional)
Book: Basic Epidemiology (Edition: 2nd; 9241547073)
Author(s): Ruth Bonita, Robert Beaglehole, and Tord Kjellstrom
Chapter 6: Epidemiology and prevention - Pages: 99-114