Dental Public Health

Highly-trained public health specialists are required in Ireland and abroad to tackle issues such as health inequalities; their causes and solutions; communicable diseases; oral health; obesity; smoking and international health development. In particular, Dental public health is the science of preventing oral diseases, promoting oral health and improving the quality of life through organised efforts. It concerns not only actions directed at populations as a whole, but also at the groups and individuals that make up populations.

The Dental Public Health course at University College Cork is an innovative course designed to offer multi-disciplinary academic and experiential development. Our teaching model places emphasis on the following methods of learning:

• student-directed learning

• multi-disciplinary teaching and learning

• problem-solving

• skills training

• flexibility

Our Dental Public Health program will appeal to dental professionals who wish to develop the knowledge, skills, and commitment to developing services that are equitable and fair; and who wish to develop a greater understanding of the competing demands, resource implications, and expectations in providing a public dental service in the twenty-first centuryAs part of UCC's commitment to Continuing Professional Development (CPD), healthcare professionals may take a one-off module and be provided with a relevant transcript of marks.

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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

As part of UCC's commitment to Continuing Professional Development (CPD), healthcare professionals may take a one-off module and be provided with a relevant transcript of marks.

Courses Include:

• Principles and Practice of Public Health

• Applied Research for Public Health

• Public Health Informatics

• Leadership in Public Health

• Decision Analysis and Evaluation Methods in Health Care and Health Care Financing

• Critical Social Science Perspectives on Public Health

• Dental Public Health

• Preventive Dentistry