Developing core dental public health competencies for predoctoral dental and dental hygiene students
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13583109 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ana Karina Mascarenhas (0000-0001-6706-2386, American Association Public Health Dentistry Springfield IL USA, corresponding author), K A Atchison (0000-0001-7146-234X, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | S6-11 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Public Health Dentistry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4006 • E-ISSN: 1752-7325 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jphd.12129 |
| PMID | 26630639 |
| OpenAlex | W2272687534 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
Dental professionals are an "underutilized" workforce, when it comes to advocating for prevention and wellness in populations. The goal of this HRSA-funded project is to develop dental public health (DPH) competencies and curriculum for US predoctoral dental and dental hygiene programs. These competencies and accompanying curriculum are designed to better prepare the oral health workforce to meet the needs of the entire population, including the chronically underserved, those challenged by poor health literacy, or communities encountering barriers to accessing oral health care. By increasing the DPH competency of all graduating dental providers, in population-based approaches to preventing oral diseases rather than the existing exclusive focus on treatment, the number of providers who can respond to a population or the public's unmet needs and challenges, both in private practices and publicly supported clinics, will increase. This paper describes the competency development process and the eight competencies that were identified
Business · Core competency · Curriculum · Dental public health · Environmental health · Family medicine · Medical education · Oral health · Oral hygiene · Pedagogy · Political science · Population · Public health · Workforce · Dental Health and Care Utilization · Dental Research and COVID-19 · Dentistry · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Psychology · Dental Hygiene
Construction of public health core competence and the improvement of its legal guarantee in China
Establishing a speaker's bureau to teach dental public health curriculum in predoctoral dental and dental hygiene programs
Pilot testing a predoctoral dental public health curriculum
Developing a flexible core D ental P ublic H ealth curriculum for predoctoral dental and dental hygiene schools
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |