511-205 Preventive and Community Dentistry

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This subject covers: oral health promotion; public policy and health systems; and computers in dental practice.

On completion of this subject, the student should:

• comprehend the characteristics of public health programs and their evaluation; the variety of uses of computers in dental practice and access/retrieval of data; the principles of health promotion; and public policy issues as they affect oral health;

• demonstrate the capacity to communicate with clients to identify and address health needs; and skills in the planning, delivery and evaluation of a variety of health promotion activities in individual groups and community settings; and

• appreciate the dimensions of health education and health promotion within the delivery of dental, medical, allied health and educational services.

Assessment

(1) one 1200-word written assignment at the end of Semester 2; and (2) written assignments, presentations and practical reports throughout the year.

A pass is required in each section for an overall pass in the subject.

Prescribed Texts

EITHER the following two books: G Egger, R J Donovan and R Spark, Health and the Media, McGraw Hill, 1993 or G Egger, R Spark and J S Lawson, Health Promotion Strategies and Methods, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, 1998. or J Naidoo and J Wills, Health Promotion: Foundations for Practice, Baillere Tindall, 1994.

• P Hawe, D Degeling and J Hall, Evaluating Health Promotion: A Health Workers Guide. McLennan and Petty, 1990.