Preventive Dentistry and Community Oral Health I

Medicina Dentária Preventiva e Comunitária I

Curse code:9548303

Ana Cristina Garcia de Matos Manso

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

Guide and challenge students on basic knowledge acquired and its transformation, with regard to preventive attitude in individual and Oral Health Oral Health Community in science Promotion, Prevention and Maintenance of Oral and Community Health (PPMSOC). The student must be competent in knowledge:

• the oral and biomedical basic sciences, which provide distinguish disease health by applying principles of health promotion and disease prevention;
• the organization and delivery of health care in the community;
• the prevalence of the most common oral conditions in Portugal;;
• preventive measures based on the community and its importance;
• the social, cultural and environmental factors that contribute to health or illness;
• applying knowledge of scientific evidence, analysis, problem solving, planning, communication (PPMSOC) and present work in teams, to increase individual oral health, family and community.

Syllabus:

1. Concept of health and disease.
2. Education for health.
3. Principles of prevention and health promotion in dentistry.
4. Principles, methods and applications in oral health - The qualitative and quantitative research in Oral Health.
5. Dental care in Europe and Portugal. Note on the National Health Service and oral health care (Portugal).
6. Characterization of oral health in the private system and the public system (Portugal).
7. Dental health care models in Portugal - public health.
8. Inequalities in oral health.
9. The epidemiology in dentistry.
10. Diagnosis tools of oral health conditions of a population group.
11. The epidemiology and health promotion: dental caries, periodontal disease, malocclusion
12. Cleft Lip and Palate and finally oral cancer.
13. Search retrieval and critical appraisal of primary and secondary sources through the types of epidemiological study.

Suggested Bibliography:

• Pereira AC (2009, reimpr.2013) Tratado de saúde coletiva em odontologia. Nova Odessa, São Paulo: Napoleão. ISBN 978-8560842131
• Cuenca Sala E, Baca García B (2013) Odontología preventiva y comunitária: principios, métodos y aplicaciones. 4ª ed., Barcelona. Elsevier España S.A. ISBN 978-84-4582203-6;
• Hill MM, Hill A (2008) Investigação por questionário. 2ª ed., Edições Sílabo. ISBN 978-972-618-273-3.
• http://www.who.int/en/
• http://www.dgs.pt