Jong's Community Dental Health

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.

Perspective

xi

PART I DENTAL CARE DELIVERY

Dental Public Health: An Overview

3

(34)

Lester E. Block

James R. Freed

The Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health in America: Defining Challenges for the Future

37

(36)

Mark D. Macek

The U.S. Dental Care Delivery System and Managed Care: An Overview

73

(18)

Howard L. Bailit

Tryfon Beazoglou

Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program

91

(14)

James Crall

PART II DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS AND DENTAL HEALTH

Diversity, Sociocultural Issues, and Communication in Oral Health Care

105

(26)

Hillary L. Broder

Michael Skolnick

Yvette R. Schlussel

Oral Health and the Aging Population (Geriatric Oral Health)

131

(24)

Rima Bachiman Sehl

New Insights into Early Childhood Caries and Strategies for Prevention

155

(18)

Benjamin Peretz

Eliezer Eidelman

PART III DISTRIBUTION OF DENTAL DISEASE AND PREVENTION

The Epidemiology of Oral Diseases

173

(32)

David G. Pendrys

The Impact of Transmissible Disease on the Practice of Dentistry

205

(32)

Helene Bednarsh

Bennett Klein

Effective Community Prevention Programs for Oral Diseases

237

(40)

Myron Allukian, Jr.

Alice M. Horowitz

Oral Health Education and Health Promotion

277

(52)

Nancy R. Kressin

Marianne B. DeSouza

Planning for Community Dental Programs

329

(22)

Madalyn L. Mann

Program Evaluation in Health Care

351

(18)

David O. Born

PART IV RESEARCH IN DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH

Overview of Biostatistics

369

(22)

Lynda Rose

Accessing and Reading Dental Public Health Research: Evidence-based Dental Practice

391

(34)

Van B. Afes

Eugene Hittelman

PART V ETHICS AND THE LAW IN COMMUNITY DENTAL HEALTH

Ethical Issues in Community Dental Health

425

(22)

Muriel J. Bebeau

Jeffrey P. Kahn

The Law and Dental Practice: Protecting the Health of the Community

447

(42)

Burton R. Pollack

Appendix: The Organization of Health-Related Activities at the Federal Level of Government

489

Lester E. Block

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