Population-based dental health and care
Section 2: GDC Preparing for Practice
Population-based dental health and care focuses on promoting oral health, preventing dental diseases, and providing accessible dental care for populations.
Dental Public Health, as a specialty within the UK NHS, applies these principles within the context of the national healthcare system.
It involves designing and implementing policies, strategies, and interventions to improve oral health, reduce oral health inequalities, and ensure equitable access to dental care for the entire UK population.
GDC Publication: Preparing for practice: Dental team learning outcomes for registration.
It is a GDC requirement that, to be on the UK Dental Register, the following Dental Public Health outcomes are met:
Section 2: Population-based health and care
Upon registration with the GDC the registrant will be able to demonstrate the outcomes as relevant to the practice of dentistry and patient care.
- 2.1 Describe the basic principles of a population health approach including demographic and social trends, UK and international oral health trends, determinants of health and inequalities in health, the ways in which these are measured, and current patterns.
- 2.2 Describe the dental and wider healthcare systems dental professionals work within, including health policy and organisation, delivery of healthcare and equity.
- 2.3 Describe and evaluate the role of health promotion in terms of the changing environment, community and individual behaviours to deliver health gain.
- 2.4 Describe evidence-based prevention and apply appropriately
- 2.5 Describe the principles of planning oral health care for communities to meet needs and demands.
This course is designed to exactly meet these outcomes, and will be invaluable to those seeking to join, or rejoin, the UK Dental Register, as well as those seeking to refresh their knoweldge on the topic.
If you're not yet a member of Dentaljuce, we highly recommend you to join and gain access to our comprehensive course on population-based dental health and care.
This course, along with over 100 other CPD courses, is available for a single membership payment.
Course Review: Population-based Dental Health and Care
Participant Feedback Overview
Participants provided consistently positive feedback for Dentaljuce’s online CPD course, "Population-based Dental Health and Care," praising its comprehensive content, insightful delivery, and practical relevance for dental professionals.
Key Strengths
Participants particularly highlighted:
- Comprehensive and Informative Content: The course thoroughly covered population-based approaches to dental healthcare, offering insightful perspectives on demographic trends, healthcare systems, and health promotion strategies.
- Clarity and Accessibility: Attendees appreciated the straightforward delivery, describing the course as easy to understand while still effectively conveying essential knowledge.
- Practical Applicability: Many noted the course equipped them to better implement targeted interventions and advocate for dental health equity within their professional practice, enhancing patient outcomes.
Specific Positive Comments from Participants
- "Great course, very insightful and informative."
- "Excellent quality, thank you."
- "I am better equipped to implement targeted interventions and advocate for policies that promote dental health equity and improve outcomes for all patients."
- "The course was excellent, really well delivered and easy to understand. The additional 'Ask Dr Aiden' section was particularly useful."
- "Overall, I found this course very helpful and informative. It deepened my understanding of how community factors impact oral health."
Participants valued the module's relevance, highlighting its effectiveness in deepening their understanding of community-based oral health and its practical implications.
Closed-Question Feedback Summary
- Met learning objectives: 100% strongly agree/agree
- Good quality: 93.9% strongly agree/agree
- Useful & relevant: 96.9% strongly agree/agree
- Engaging: 97% strongly agree/agree
- Pitched at right level: 100% strongly agree/agree
These results underline significant participant satisfaction regarding course quality, relevance, engagement, and value.
Suggestions for Improvement
Though overwhelmingly positive, a minor suggestion from participants was to avoid repetition in certain sections to further enhance course engagement and efficiency.
Overall Impression
Participants regarded "Population-based Dental Health and Care" as an insightful, engaging, and highly relevant course that significantly improved their professional understanding and practical skills in population-based dental healthcare.
Aim
The aim of the learning and teaching materials in this Dentaljuce module is to allow learners to demonstrate they have undertaken appropriate training in Population-based dental health and care.
Course objective
- To meet the requirements of the GDC publication "Preparing for practice": section 2.
Anticipated learning outcomes:
The learner will, with respect to the components that he or she has elected to study as listed below:- be able to describe the basic principles of a population health approach including demographic and social trends, UK and international oral health trends, determinants of health and inequalities in health, the ways in which these are measured, and current patterns.
- be able to describe the dental and wider healthcare systems dental professionals work within, including health policy and organisation, delivery of healthcare and equity.
- be able to describe and evaluate the role of health promotion in terms of the changing environment, community and individual behaviours to deliver health gain.
- be able to describe evidence-based prevention and apply appropriately.
- be able to describe the principles of planning oral health care for communities to meet needs and demands.
- through achieving these outcomes, provide an improved level of service to their patients.
GDC Development Outcomes
This CPD will support the learner in meeting the following GDC Development Outcome(s): A, B, C, D.