Public Health Care in Dentistry I (ZHAS_045)
About Study Course
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.
Prerequisites
Preventive Dentistry.
Learning outcomes
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 .
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.
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.
