Dental Public Health at a Glance (eBook)

Ivor G. Chestnutt (Autor)

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2024 | 2. Auflage
144 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-394-18428-6 (ISBN)

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The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners, for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.

Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text.

Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory texts for teaching, learning and revision, and are useful throughout university and beyond.

Everything you need to know about Dental Public Health... at a Glance!

The essential reference covering the field of dental public health

Dental Public Health at a Glance, presents a rich introduction to dental and oral health issues in communities and populations. Offering comprehensive coverage of the field, each topic is richly illustrated and presented in an easy-to-comprehend two-page spread. The essential facts are clearly summarized and accompanied by tables, illustrations, and diagrams.

This revised and updated Second Edition presents a variety of updates, including the importance of population perspective on healthcare organization and delivery due to COVID-19 and other pandemics and the role to be played by dental services in contributing to the environmental agenda. It also addresses a number of revisions to important policy documents such as the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition's report on feeding 1-5 year olds, emerging views on behavior change, and the increasing prominence of the Behavior Change Wheel.

Written by a widely published dental academic with more than 25 years of experience in the field, Dental Public Health includes information on:

* Principles of measuring and recording oral health and the epidemiology of dental caries, periodontal diseases, and oral cancer
* Study design, case reports, cohort studies, randomized controlled trials, and split-mouth and crossover studies in evidence based dentistry
* Strategies for the delivery of fluoride in the prevention of dental caries, covering toothpaste, water fluoridation, and community fluoride schemes and fissure sealant programs
* Societal factors influencing dental care including migration, race, and ethnicity
* Considerations for a career in dental public health

Offering new revisions throughout all essential areas and case studies to enable enhanced understanding of concepts, Dental Public Health at a Glance is a must-have introductory textbook and revision guide for dentistry and dental hygiene and therapy students.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2024
• Reihe/Serie: At a Glance (Dentistry)
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Zahnmedizin
• Schlagworte: Berufspraxis i. d. Zahnmedizin • Community Dentistry & Public Health • Dental Hygiene & Therapy • Dental Professional Practice • dentistry • Public Health • Zahnheilkunde • Zahnheilkunde u. Gesundheitswesen • Zahnmedizin • Zahn- u. Mundhygiene u. Therapie
• ISBN-10: 1-394-18428-X / 139418428X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-394-18428-6 / 9781394184286