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Master essential dental public health concepts with this comprehensive 2026/2027 study guide featuring key definitions, questions and answers, oral health promotion, epidemiology, disease prevention, community dental programs, public health policies, population health strategies, and evidence-based dental care principles. Designed for dental hygiene, dental public health, and oral healthcare students seeking to strengthen knowledge, improve exam performance, and succeed in academic and professional assessments. Includes practice questions with solutions, detailed explanations, and comprehensive review material for effective exam preparation.

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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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