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Clinical Governance: - A framework through which NHS organisations are accountable for continuously
improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care
by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish
Comparative Needs: - The needs of one population compared to those of another
Demography: - Measurements and statistics that describe populations
Dental Public Health: - The science and art of preventing oral disease, promoting oral health and
improving the quality of life through the organised efforts of society
Equality: - Dividing resources quality but does not factor differences in need and ability
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Equity: - Driving resources in a way so that all individuals, regardless of differences such
as race and socioeconomic status have the same opportunity of success
Evidence based dentistry: - Combination of a dentist's clinical expertise, the needs and preferences of
patients, and the use of the most recent and clinically relevant evidence to
provide an improved standard of care
Expressed need: - Felt needs expressed by action
Felt need: - The needs people believe they have
Free sugars: - All sugars added to foods and rinks by a manufacturer, cook or consumer, as
well as sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, smoothies and fruit juice.
Health: - State of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Health Economics: - Branch of economics concerned with issues related to efficiency, effectiveness,
value and behaviour in the production and consumption of health and
healthcare.
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Health Education: - Provision of information about health and health-related behaviours
Health Improvement: - Work to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals or communities by
addressing underlying issues.
Health Inequalities: - Avoidable, unfair and systematic differences in health between different groups
of people.
Health needs assessment: - Process of describing the health needs that exist within a population, the services
currently available to attempt to meet those needs and the gaps that exist.
Health Promotion: - Process of enabling people to increase control over their own health
Health protection: - Prevention of infectious disease and environmental hazards
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