Dental Public Health Flashcards
Oral health surveillance bodies
PHE
Dental public health intelligence programme
Features of dental public health
Leadership in population based dentistry Oral health surveillance Policy development Community based disease prevention and health promotion Maintaining dental safety net
Determinants of health
Age Geography Ses Education Access to resources Language Ethnicity
Dental safety net
Sum of individuals, organisations, public and private agencies and programs delivering oral health services to people who cannot access them on their own due to poverty, culture, language, health status, geography and education.
Biomedical model of health
Health = practitioner and drugs and treatment
Patient is passive
Practitioner is expert
Body is machine that can be fixed
Social model of health
Patient centred approach emotional cultural social biological psychological
Clinician is helper
Patient is self reliant
Holistic approach
Importance of social model of health to dentistry
Patient attendance compliance and satisfaction is dependent on previous experience of dentists
Most oral diseases are preventable with good ohi and education
Who model of health
A state of complete physical mental and social well being not merely being free from disease
Adv - recognises mental and social aspects of health
Disadvantage - encourages pill taking and check ups, medicalisation of life
Health promotion
The process of enabling individuals to increase control over and improve their health
Ottawa charter (date)
1986
Outlined principles of health promotion
Advocate for essential conditions for health
Enable individuals to reach their full health potential
Mediate between different interests in society in the pursuit of health
Why measure health
Reduce effect of negative factors
Promote positive factors
Devise practical solutions to promote and protect health
Identify unmet health needs, if health services need to improve or if policy needs to be written
Health status
A measurement or description of the health of an individual or population at a particular point in time against identifiable standards and health indicators who 1998
How do we measure health
Collect information on the health status of the population
Define need
Capacity to benefit from intervention
Define rate, prevalence and incidence
Rate is how disease progresses over time
Prevalence is % of people with the disease now
Incidence is number of new cases / population at risk in a given time period
Mortality rate
Death rate indicates disease burden
Number of deaths/population
Morbidity rate
Non fatal outcomes
Life expectancy
The average number of years a person of a particular age can expect to live
Life expectancy at birth
The average number of years newborns can be expected to live if mortality and morbidity rates continue throughout their lifetime
Quantitative sources of health data
Who
Eurostat
Ons
Project isare
Qualitative sources of health data
Self reported health measures
Academic research
Type of information contained in health statistics
Demographic info Health related info Health service use data Morbidity rate Mortality rate Health need data
How to test the effectiveness of data
Cart measure C - completeness A - accuracy R - relevance T - timeliness
Health inequality
Differences in health status measures between different sub sections of populations eg ses, gender, age, ethnicity
Why are there health inequalities
Behaviouralist approach
Social determinants of health approach
Types of health need
Normative ( defined by professionals)
Felt (individual perceives important)
Expressed
Comparative (one group compared with a similar group)
Cohen and jago (date)
1976
Recognised importance of clinical measures in measuring oral health
Could be improved if socio dental factors included
Locker 1988
Move away from biomedical model Saw oral health impacted everyday life Disease Impairment Functional limitations Pain Disability Handicap
DoH definition of oral health (date)
1994
Standard of health which enables an individual to eat speak and socialise without active disease pain or embarrassment and contributes to general well being
Dolan definition of oral health (date)
1993
Comfortable and functional dentition which enables to individual to continue in their desired social role
Locker 1997
Oral health related quality of life measures
Sheiham and watt (date)
2000
Common risk factor approach to healthcare
What is a clinical index
A tool which allows the quantity of a disease to be measured