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DH 227W - Community Dentistry II

Credits: 1
Instructional Contact Hours: 3

Provides opportunity for assessment of dental health needs for target populations. Includes design, implementation, and evaluation of dental health improvement programs in non-traditional settings. Evening, weekend, and holiday assignments may be required.

Prerequisite(s): DH 210W , DH 213 , DH 214W , DH 215 , DH 216W  and DH 219W , each with a “C” (2.0) minimum grade.
Corequisite(s): DH 222W , DH 225 , DH 228 , DH 229  and LWA 206C .
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 45
Meets MTA Requirement: None
Pass/NoCredit: No

Outcomes and Objectives
  1. Compare and contrast private practice and community health approaches to care of a population.
    1. Discuss how health, public health, dental public health, target groups, access to care, socio economic status, barriers to care, roles of health care professionals, and epidemiologic trends are related to public health.
    2. Compare and contrast the roles and procedures of a private practitioner versus a public health practitioner.
    3. Describe the history and organization of dental public health.
    4. Describe historical public health achievements.
    5. Compare and contrast primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
    6. Discuss the factors affecting public health.
    7. Identify five examples of specific target groups.
    8. Compare and contrast the terms: epidemic, endemic and pandemic.
    9. Compare and contrast Public Health Goals and Public Health Services
    10. Describe Healthy People 2020.
  2. Apply the basic concepts of promoting health through preventive activities through dental public health programs.
    1. Compare and contrast health education and health promotion.
    2. Identify methods to provide health promotion to the community.
    3. Identify four current oral epidemiological trends.
    4. Describe the connection of health promotion and oral epidemiological trends.
    5. Identify dental programs to assist with controlling oral conditions.
    6. Describe current public health preventive programs and public health models.
    7. Defend the need for preventive modalities in dental public health.
    8. Identify four preventive procedures to implement within a dental public health program.
    9. Discuss the history of fluoridated water supply.
    10. Discuss the impact of caries rate related to fluoridated community water supply.
    11. Respect the goals, values, beliefs and preferences of the patient/client while promoting optimal oral and general health.
    12. Evaluate factors to promote patient/client adherence to disease prevention and/or health maintenance strategies.
  3. Determine a plan to address the needs of a community.
    1. Define, differentiate and state indications for the different methods of assessment.
    2. Compare and contrast dental indices
    3. Compare and contrast characteristics of an index.
    4. Compare and contrast indices: simple, cumulative, reversible, and irreversible.
    5. Describe examinations I - IV & screenings
    6. Given a case study interpret data from indices and describe the needs of the target group.
    7. Determine the importance of oral health surveillance.
    8. Identify how oral health surveillance relates to Healthy People 2020.
    9. Describe publications that report oral epidemiology.
    10. Identify six dental epidemiological trends.
    11. Describe how epidemiological trends may have an impact related to decision making regarding new programming.
    12. Identify the areas to assess to develop a complete community profile.
    13. Determine the importance of assessing the availability of community resources.
    14. Analyze the data gained from the assessments.
    15. Determine the priority of the issues of the community.
    16. Prioritize the issues for the community project.
    17. Identify the importance of continual surveillance of epidemiological trends regarding planning public health programming.
    18. Discuss entities on a state and national level responsible for surveillance of epidemiological trends.
  4. Develop an educational plan for the dental community.
    1. Describe the dental hygiene process of care as it relates to developing a community program.
    2. Develop the goal(s) of the community project.
    3. Develop specific and measurable objectives related to the program goal(s).
    4. Compare and contrast motivational theories.
    5. Compare and contrast principles of health.
    6. Compare and contrast behavior modification theories.
    7. Compare and contrast learning styles.
    8. Compare and contrast teaching styles.
    9. Determine the levels of learning for the lesson plan.
    10. Determine the cognitive domains for the lesson plan.
    11. Develop the lesson plan including information, educational strategies, and activities appropriate for the project and participants
    12. Develop organizational tactics: timeframes, roles of presenters, roles of participants, and checklists of item needed.
    13. Determine the value of implementing an interdisciplinary approach to program planning.
  5. Implement a plan for the operation of a dental public health program.
    1. Identify problems and possible solutions to problems that may occur during implementation phase of a public health program.
    2. Discuss possible changes that maybe implemented during the program.
    3. Demonstrate qualities of an effective leader.
  6. Evaluate the effectiveness of a community project using biostatistics.
    1. Evaluate the pre and post statistics of the group.
    2. Analyze data related to the dental program.
    3. Present qualitative and quantitative data related to the dental program.
    4. Determine the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics.
    5. Compare and contrast mean, median, mode, range, variance, standard deviation.
    6. Given an array and determine the type of mode.
    7. Given a case study, provide information regarding the correlation (r value).
    8. Given a correlation coefficient determine the strength and relationship of the association
    9. Explain the characteristics of a Gaussian distribution.
    10. Compare and contrast a positively and negatively skewed distribution.
    11. Given a case study, determine if there is a negatively or positively skewed distribution.
    12. Discuss statistical significance (p value).
    13. Identify the p value that represent statistical significance.
    14. Compare and contrast the T-test, ANOVA, and Chi Square Test.
    15. Given a case study, determine T-test, ANOVA, and Chi Square Test.
    16. Explain the purpose of graphs.
    17. Compare and contrast bar graphs, histograms, frequency distribution, and pie diagrams.
    18. Compare and contrast formative evaluation and summative evaluation.
    19. Determine how assessment and evaluation are related.
    20. Discuss causality and how it can be determined.



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