This course presents a comprehensive view of dental public health. Through lectures, class discussion, and exercises, students will investigate the core public health functions and become familiar with the concepts of surveillance, dental indices, access and systems of care, oral health disparities, social determinants of health, and public policy. In completing their final project, students will develop the practical skills needed for population-based public health programing such as needs assessment, writing goals and objectives, implementation planning, program evaluation, creating logic models, budgets, and timelines.

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