DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH

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Presented by: Group 1
Ahmed Awad
Alghafri Mahmoud
Aquino Alexandra Nickole
Basco Lenny
Caburian Dharyl Yvette
Unit 1: Dental Public Health:
An Overview

Mission of Public Health

Definition of Public
Heath
Public Health and
Community Health
Public Health Core
Functions
MISSION OF PUBLIC HEALTH
PUBLIC HEALTH
The mission of the Program in Public Health is to promote
the health of populations at the regional, national, and
global levels by developing the next generation of public
health practitioners and health management leaders, as
well as through programs of excellence in research,
community engagement, and service.

PREVENT PROMOTE PREPARE

disease, injury, health and for and
disability well being respond to
disaster
One way to more clearly explain public health and to
describe its mission and purpose is by indicating that
public health

PREVENTS EPIDEMICS AND THE

SPREAD OF DISEASE
PROTECTS AGAINST
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
PREVENTS INJURIES
PROMOTES AND ENCOURAGES
HEALTHY SERVICES
RESPONDS TO DISASTERS AND
ASSISTS COMMUNITIES IN
RECOVERY
ENSURES THE QUALITY AND
ACCESSIBILITY OF HEALTH
SERVICES
 DEFINITION
PUBLIC HEALTH
is the coalition of professions united by their shared missions.”
- Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences

The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and

promoting physical and mental efficiency through organized
community effort for the sanitation of the environment, the
control of communicable infections, the education of the
individual in personal hygiene, the organization of medical and
nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment
of disease, and the development of the social machinery to insure
everyone. Charles-Edward A. Winslow
 Public Health and Community
PUBLIC Health
means general collection of people without regard to a specific geographic area.
COMMUNITY
is more commonly defined as a group or collection of people who live in a specified
geographic area that is of a limited size.
 Public Health and Community
Health
DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH
The science and art of preventing and controlling dental disease and promoting
dental health through organized community efforts. It is that form of dental
practice that serves the community as a patient rather than the individual. It is
concerned with the dental health education of the public, with research and the
application of the findings of research, with the administration of programs of
dental care for groups, and with the prevention and control of
dental disease through a community approach

- ( American Board of Dental Public Health (ABDPH)

PUBLIC HEALTH 3 CORE FUNCTIONS
ASSESSMENT
constitutes the diagnostic func-
tion, in which a public health
agency collects, assembles,
analyzes, and makes available
information on the health of the
population
POLICY
DEVELOPMENT
involves the use of scientific
knowledge to develop a strategic
approach to improving the
community’s health
ASSURANCE
means that public health agencies are responsible
for seeing that conditions contributing to good
health, including high quality services, are available
to all. These agencies also must provide essential
public health and environmental health services;
respond to personal and environmental health
emergencies; administer quality assurance
programs; and guarantee care for those not served
in the current health care marketplace, including
recruiting and retaining health care practitioners to
provide appropriate services.
THE TEN ESSENTIAL PUBLIC
HEALTH SERVICES:
ASSESSMENT
1. Monitor health status to identify community health problems
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in
the community
POLICY DEVELOPMENT
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.

ASSURANCE
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable
8. Assure a competent public health and personal healthcare workforce
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
Serving All Functions
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems
Organizational Practices Under the
Three Core Public Health Functions:
ASSESSMENT
a. Assess the health needs of the community
b. Investigate the occurrence of health effects and hazards in the
community
c. Analyze the determinants of identified health needs
POLICY DEVELOPMENT
a. Advocate for public health, build constituencies, and identify resources in the
community
b. Set priorities among health needs
c. Develop plans and policies to address priority health needs
ASSURANCE
a. Manage resources and develop organizational structure
b. Implement programs
c. Evaluate programs and provide quality assurance
d. Inform and educate the public
Thank's For
Listening!!!