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Public Health Care in Dentistry I
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2022 12:58:56
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | ZHAS_045 | LQF level: | Level 5 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Public Health | Target Audience: | Dentistry | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Egita Senakola | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Conservative Dentistry and Oral Health | ||||||||
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| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 3 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 6 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Preventive Dentistry. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To raise awareness of possibilities for the public dental care. To create a positive, professional attitude to promation of general and oral health. To raise awareness of planning and development of different oral health promotion and education programmes in regions and cities for different age groups. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to Public Health Care - Historical Overview, Definition. The concept of primary oral health care. Strategies to control mouth disease (common risk approach). | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 2 | Principles of oral health promotion. The Concept of Health and the Definition, Principles and Activities of Health Promotion (WHO 1986, Ottawa Charter). Oral health care models in EU and in the world. Model of Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 3 | Nutrition, Dietary Guidelines and Nutrition Policy for Oral Health. Tooth decay and erosion. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 4 | Prevention of dental trauma. Smoking and oral health. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 5 | Dental hygienist training models in the world and in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 6 | Principles of oral health promotion. Education programs on oral health promotion in Latvia. Preventive measures for children. young people, adults and the elderly. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 7 | Nutrition, Dietary Guidelines and Nutrition Policy for Oral Health. Tooth decay and erosion. Ability to educate dental patients and residents on how to prevent dental injuries and how to act in case of dental injury. Smoking, women and smoking. Effects of smoking on the oral cavity. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 8 | Ability to educate dental patients and population how to prevent dental trauma and how to act in case of a dental trauma. Secondhand smoke, women and smoking. Most significant effects of smoking on the oral cavity. Dental hygienist training models in the world and in Latvia. Dental hygienist profession standard.Test. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To prepare oral health promoting presentations, booklets, posters. To educate dental patients (in all age groups). To read evidence based scientific literature. Active participation in lectures and classes. Completion of the course evaluation questionnaire. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Attendance of lectures and practices. Active participation during the seminars with presentations. Written test with analysis of questions about lectures. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test (Semester) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | At the end of the course the student will have knowledge primary health and dental care approach, society and oral health (common ask factor approach), systems for Oral Health care in Latvia, principles, approaches of oral health promotion and education, principles of epidemiology in dentistry, role of the dental team in oral and health promotion . | ||||||||
| Skills: | To evaluate basic principles of health promotion and education, to understand and be able to suggest preventive programmes and strategies opposite to treatment regimen in dentistry, to develop critical attitude to evaluation of a dentist's own work, to assess necessities of an individual preventive and dental care agreeing them with needs of all society. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To evaluate basic principles of health promotion and education. Ability to educate dental patients (in all age groups) and to order them preventive care on a primary oral health care level. Ability to take part in the process of planning, working out and introducing different oral health promoting programmes in different age groups. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Paula Moynihan, Yuka Makino, Poul Erik Petersen,| Hiroshi Ogawa. Implications of WHO Guideline on Sugars for dental health professionals. . Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2018;46:1–7. | ||||||||
| 2 | Toolkit for oral health professionals to deliver brief tobacco intervention, WHO, 2017. | ||||||||
| 3 | O. Fejerskov, E. Kidd “Dental Caries. The Disease and its Clinical Management”. Blackwell Publishing, 2015 | ||||||||
| 4 | Blanaid Daly, Richard G. Watt, Paul Batchelor, Elizabeth T. Treasure Essential Dental Public Health. Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2013. | ||||||||
| 5 | Cynthia Pine, Rebecca Harris Community Oral Health. Quintessence Publishing Co Ltd, 2007. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 6 | Aubrey Sheiham, Marcelo Bonecker Promoting Children's Oral Health: Theory and Practice. Quintessence Editora LTDA, 2nd ed., 2014. | ||||||||
| 7 | Murray J.J. Prevention of Oral Disease. Oxford Univ. Press Inc., New York, USA, 2003. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 8 | Nathe N.C. Dental public health & research: Contemporary practice for the dental hygienist. Prentice Hall, 2011. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 9 | Petersen P.E., Yamamoto T. Improving the oral helath of older people: the approach of the WHO Global Oral Health Programme. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol, 2005; 33: 81 – 92. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 10 | Silman J.A. Epidemiological studies: A practical quide Cambridge University Press, 2002. | ||||||||
| 11 | EU Manual of Dental Practice 2015 Edition 5.1. Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. | ||||||||
| 12 | The State of Oral Health in Europe. Professor Kenneth Eaton, Chair of the Platform for Better Oral Health in Europe, 2012. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bulletin World Health Organization. The International Journal of Public Health. September 2005, Volume 83; N˚ 9, 641 – 720. | ||||||||
| 2 | Bourgeois D.M.,Llodra J.C. European Global Oral Health Indicators Development Project. 2003 Report Proceeding Quintessence International, 2004. | ||||||||
| 3 | Clinical Practice Guideline. Treating Tobacco use and dependence. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Public Health Service, 2000. | ||||||||
| 4 | N. Pitts “Detection, Assessment, Diagnosis and Monitoring of Caries” Karger, 2009 | ||||||||
| 5 | Edwina A. M. Kidd. Essentials of Dental Caries: The Disease and Its Management (Kidd, Essentials of Dental Caries). Oxford University Press, 2016. | ||||||||
| 6 | Toolkit for delivering the 5A’s and 5R’s brief tobacco interventions in primary care, WHO, 2014. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Cochrane Library, Science Direct, SAGE, ProQuest, OVID, Wiley online library, EBSCO, Dyna Med. | ||||||||
