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The study of the behavioral role and social status in relation to health status, life expectancy, and the utilization of services.
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dental treatment. Locally, Funded Health Clinic as Manager of Information. Locally, Public Health Dept. also.
6. Health policy and management or health administration
This category addresses the dimensions and operation of the health care delivery system to address problems such as quality of care.
The Dental Hygiene Committee of California is a board of dental hygienists that address the legalities of the profession such as adopting regulations, issuing licensees, and administering exams,
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Orthodontist, Dr. Emerson: senator.
Jong's Community Dental Health, 5th edition by George M. Gluck and Warren M. Morganstein
Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist, 2nd edition by Kathy Voigt Geurink

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An RDH can push for water fluoridation in the community to decrease the occurrence of caries.
EPA. Water district.
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EPA. Locally, Public Health Dept.
5. Social and behavioral sciences
The study of the behavioral role and social status in relation to health status, life expectancy, and the utilization of services.

List the six categories of public health. Thoroughly describe each category and provide an example of how a RDH would work or being employed in each environment.
1. Epidemiology
are 7 prinicipleprinciple factors in
-Distribution
-Population dynamics
-Time
-Determinants
health center. A good example: flu virus/vaccination. An RDH can work in CDC. Locally, Riverside County Public Health Dept.
2. Statistics
A science that describes the data for the purpose of making inferences about the population from which the data are obtained.
CanAn RDH can work in CDC, a university such as Loma Linda University, UCLA.
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By using statistical designs, an RDH can discover information that can improve the practice and move the profession forward.
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Dental hygienists can work in research for products, such as dentifrices and salivary diagnostics
Look at stem cells. Research Center such as UCLA, UCSF.
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4. Environmental health science
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An RDH can push for water fluoridation in the community to decrease the occurrence of caries.
EPA. Water district.
Where would the RDH be employed; where would she/he work? DL
5. Social and behavioral sciences

Welcome to Your DEH-34 Quiz #2
YourY our assignment is
1. Work in your learning groups.
2. Each learning group has a page assigned to them. Your instructions are on each page.

Learning Group #2 - Gen, Rachel, and Kristina
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Compare and contrast the private practice model of providing dental care and the dental public health model.
Private practice model: their purpose is to maximize the dental interests of individual people. Their work content is to provide personal dental health services for patients to improve their dental health. The practitioner is concerned with risk-benefit calculus for individual patients. Their practitioner's primary moral obligation is to individual patients, the idea is the provision of state of the art services. They believe that the patients specific needs are relevant for decision making during their treatment. They measure their outcomes based on the change in the patient at the end of the treatment.
Dental public health model: their purpose is to maximize the dental health status of a population, community, or public. Their work content is to develop, implement, and evaluate dental health programs and to create health services for improving the public's oral health. Their practitioner is concerned with relative cost benefits of different community interventions of strategies. They believe that the practitioner is obliged to think in terms of how best to allocate community resources. With use of appropriate technology, which may not be state of the art. they are focused on population based measures. They measure their outcomes in terms of community change.
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Differences in models
Private Dental Health Model

2. Statistics
A science that describes the data for the purpose of making inferences about the population from which the data are obtained.
Can this discussion be expanded to more? DL
By using statistical designs, an RDH can discover information that can improve the practice and move the profession forward.
How can they be employed in this category? Where would they work? DL
3. Biomedical sciences
The study of disease caused by genetic factors and microorganisms to prevent and control diseases in populations and how these factors affect the body.
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Dental hygienists can work in research for products, such as dentifrices and salivary diagnostics
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4. Environmental health science
Is the prevention of the spread of the disease through water, food and air.
Can this be expanded more? DL
An RDH can push for water fluoridation in the community to decrease the occurrence of caries.
Where would the RDH be employed; where would she/he work? DL
5. Social and behavioral sciences
The study of the behavioral role and social status in relation to health status, life expectancy, and the utilization of services.
Can this be expanded more? DL
RDHAP can visit low economic, geriatric, special need people and underprivileged patients who would otherwise not receive dental treatment.
6. Health policy and management or health administration
This category addresses the dimensions and operation of the health care delivery system to address problems such as quality of care.
Can this be expanded more? DL
The Dental Hygiene Committee of California is a board of dental hygienists that address the legalities of the profession such as adopting regulations, issuing licensees, and administering exams,
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