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DNPH 0611
Public Policy and Oral Health Service Administration (3)
The goal of the course is to formulate, implement, and evaluate public policy for oral health service administration. The course modules will describe health delivery systems, research methods, and biostatistics. The course provides a systems approach to our oral health care delivery system. It determines the impact of public health policy, legislation, and regulatory procedures on the protection and promotion of oral health. The major emphasis is placed on the structure, process, and outcome of our oral care delivery system. The effective dissemination of oral health data requires an ability to communicate and collaborate with groups and individuals associated with voluntary health organizations. This approach places a high priority on resources in finance, personnel, facilities, dental technology, and legal constraints.
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DNPH 0612
Advanced Informatics and Dental Public Health (3)
A seminar that prepares the students to use computer technology. It is used for research, documentation, and dissemination of information in public health for publication, teaching, or administration of health programs. Current issues in public health policy or research will be presented in a seminar format. Students will be introduced to the use of computer applications for exploring these issues in depth with online resources in the computer laboratory. Students will prepare policy statements, memoranda, and educational presentations related to the issues and submit them to the seminar for review and discussion.
Quek
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DNPH 0613
Cariology (3)
The seminar will discuss issues based on assigned readings from the scientific literature and
independent investigation by each student. Students will prepare reviews and reports for presentation in the seminar. Each student will prepare a final written and oral report on an aspect of dental caries for
presentation and discussion.
Caine
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DNPH 0614
Oral Health Policy and Aging (3)
Since the turn of the last century,
the American population has undergone structural change as the population has aged
significantly. These changes are accelerating as the baby boomer population moves
toward retirement. This course will focus on how these changes in the age structure
of American society impact the epidemiology of oral disease, the need and demand
for dental services, oral health staffing issues, and the organization and financing
of oral health care service.
Holtzman
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DNPH 0615
Community-Based Research in Dental Public Health (3)
This course examines knowledge relevant to the oral care delivery
system for health promotion and prevention in populations, groups, and families.
Assessment and analysis of health patterns, program planning, and policy development
are emphasized.
Caine
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DNPH 0616
Oral Health Promotion and Preventive Dentistry (3)
The goal of the course will be to support the new paradigm
change from a secondary and tertiary prevention to primary prevention. The modules will identify primary preventive
approaches to target populations. The
course will describe community needs assessments, program infrastructural
capacity, policy development, evidence-based strategies and interventions,
school-based interventions, health promotion and education, precede-proceed
model, individual protection, and evaluation of the school-based interventions cumulative effect sizes.
Caine
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DNPH 0617
Program Planning and Resource Allocation (3)
The goal of the course will be to develop strategies for
program planning and resource allocations that are based on a needs assessment for
dental problems. The course module will
identify the different types of dental delivery systems in terms of their social
foundations, structure, process, outcome, and public health policy. The course will describe techniques in the development
of dental programs in terms of their public health policy, evidence-based interventions,
strategies for implementation and evaluation, problem statements, community needs
assessment, prioritization, implementation strategies, process theory and
effect, and process, impact, and outcome evaluations.
Caine
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DNPH 0625
Design of Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Studies (3)
The goal of the course is to develop
strategies to accurately assess observations from exposure of independent variables
and precisely estimate the cumulative effect size of the outcome of quasi-experimental
and experimental studies. The course modules include public health policy, systematic review of the literature, sampling,
study design, data collection, and statistical analysis. The topics covered in the course include problem
statement, research question, qualitative and quantitative systematic reviews, sampling
errors, quasi-experimental and experimental study designs, threats to design validity,
rater and instrument reliabilities, kappa chance coefficient, descriptive and inferential
statistics, statistical significance, results, discussion, conclusions, and references.
The course places emphasis on threats to the internal validity of quasi-experimental
and experimental study designs. Data management emphasizes planning, implementation,
and analysis.
Caine
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DNPH 0629
Oral Epidemiology of Chronic and Infectious Diseases (3)
The goal of the course is to perform accurate clinical observations and precise estimations of cumulative effect sizes of chronic and infectious diseases.
The modules of the course include oral epidemiology, research methods, and biostatistics. Basic epidemiological concepts
will be applied to oral disease in terms of their frequency
of occurrence, causality,
risk, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention. The research issues will include problem statements, critical
appraisal of the scientific literature, sampling, data collection, study designs, and statistical analysis, results, and discussion.
Caine
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DNPH 0690
Research Methods in Oral Epidemiology (3)
The course is designed
for entry-level graduate
students interested in the clinical
research of oral diseases.
A seminar format permits the identification of clinical problems
and research questions. The course develops strategies for the design and implementation of population-based studies to answer oral health questions. Basic concepts in research methods explore hypothesis testing, sampling techniques, study design, data collection, statistical analysis, and the critical evaluation of the scientific
literature.
Holtzman, Caine
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DNPH 0694
Research Methods in Public Policy and Health Services Administration (3)
Health services
research has developed into a recognized discipline by merging health-related methods and results from a number of the traditional disciplines of inquiry, ranging
from sociology and political science
or policy analysis and economics through
epidemiology to dentistry, medicine, and nursing.
The course stresses a systems approach with emphasis on social foundation, structure, process, outcomes, and public policies. The course will explore a rapidly expanding field of inquiry. Typically
health services researchers conduct investigations within different fields: health policy, health systems research, health outcomes research, clinical epidemiology, technology assessment, clinical decision
analysis, operations research, health economics,
medical and dental sociology, medical
and dental anthropology.
Caine
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