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Community/PUBLIC/STATE/SOCIETY/NATION
- A body of people having common organization or
promote, and restore the health and quality of life of the people
COMMUNI TY DENTISTRY/COMMUNITY DENTAL HEALTH! PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY /DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH
- Is the art and science of preventing and controlling
dental diseases and promoting dental health through organized community efforts.
- There are many barriers to dental care, some related to education, some to finances, some to cultural habits and some to dental care delivery system
prevention and treatment interventions are accessible to the entire population and they are applied efficiently. - Emphasis is on PREVENTION
I. SOCIAL CONCEPT
- this take into account the various social factors that
This includes: 1. the meaning of health to the community 2. hierarchy of needs 3. social analysis of the individuals 4. social pathology and social medicine 5. society, culture and attitude
2. Hierarchy of needs
It might be said that man will strive for food; shelter
and sexual expression in the sense of comjlete health, but will never strive for complete health in the absence of the other.
weaknesses, interest, prejudices, abilities and failings, a product and a part of a series of environment beginning from the womb. Human beings everywhere are member of groups and dependent on one another for the sustenance, education, inspiration, economic welfare and others.
evidenced by significant prevalence of disease and its related social disorders. Social Medicine is the study of the manner in which disease may result from or accentuate or caused social problems and the ways in which medical and public health efforts may contribute to its solution
general for the achievement of common goals in life has both quantitative and qualitative characteristics. Culture refers to the distinctive ways of life, the storehouse of the pooled learning of the group which represents a very strong determinant to behavior and attitude of the individual. Attitude it is a manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing.
to many, placing monetary value on human life appears to be improper, immoral or inhuman.
development is viewed to consist of several conditions that are inter-related, so that a change in one will cause a change in the others.
These are the conditions: 1. Productivity and income 2. Conditions of production 3. Levels of living 4. Attitude towards life and work 5. Institutional conditions 6. Policies
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