Teaching and assessment for Dental Public Health MDPH

This module gives you a comprehensive and critical understanding of dental public health practice.

You will ​explore the social, economic and psychological determinants of oral health, how they drive inequalities and learn how to synthesise and apply the evidence base to address complex public health issues.

​This module gives you a comprehensive and critical understanding of the principles, philosophy and strategies underpinning health promotion

​This module gives you a comprehensive, critical understanding of the techniques applicable to oral epidemiology and needs assessment.

The knowledge and skills gained can be used to plan, execute and evaluate oral health surveys.​

Learn about basic statistics and statistical procedures - the terminology, concepts, application, and interpretation of results.

Look at how statistics can summarise and describe the main features of a dataset. Also, how sample data can help you draw conclusions and make predictions about a larger population.

Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why. It explores health and disease conditions, their distribution, patterns, and determinants.

Epidemiological information helps create strategies to prevent and control illness. It also helps with understanding the drivers of health.

Public Health is about helping people live healthier lives. It’s also about improving the conditions and environments that we live in.

Public Health activities include, disease prevention and control, health promotion, epidemiology, community engagement, health policy, and advocacy.

​You will carry out an original piece of research in dental public health, from defining your research question through to conducting the study, analysing and interpreting your findings and presenting it in an appropriate format.