Jong's Community Dental Health [Paperback]

This essential resource gives the reader a practical overview of the expanding and evolving role of the dental professional in the health care community. Coverage includes globalism, diversity, the impact of technology on public health and community dentistry, and information on Hepatitis C and water fluoridation.

Summary and analysis of the latest manpower predictions on the 21^st century

The latest public health law

The most recent updates in health education

The most current information on managed care in dentistry

New topics: technology and its impact on public health and community dentistry; globalism; diversity; new information on Hepatitis C

PART I: DENTAL CARE DELIVER
Dental Public Health: An Overview, Summary of the Surgeon Generals Report on Dentistry, Overview of the U.S. Dental Care Delivery System, An Overview of the Dental Workforce and Medicaid

PART II: POPULATION SHIFTS AND DENTAL HEALTH
Sociocultural Issues and Communication in Oral Health Care, Dental Health and the Aging Population, Early Childhood Caries

PART III: DISTRIBUTION OF DENTAL DISEASE AND PREVENTION Epidemiology and Oral Diseases, Transmissible Disease and the Practice of Dentistry, Community Programs and Prevention, Dental Health Education, Program Planning, Program Evaluation

PART IV: RESEARCH IN DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduction to Biostatistics, Dental Research and EBD and Access to the Literature

PART V: ETHICS AND THE LAW IN COMMUNITY DENTAL HEALTH
Ethical Dilemmas and Cases, The Law and Public Health