Community oral health.

Previous ed.: Oxford: Wright, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.

Principles and practice of public health / Cynthia Pine and Rebecca Harris -- The primary health care approach / Walter Mautsch and Murray Dickson -- Inequalities in oral health: the social context for oral health / Poul Erik Petersen -- Oral health needs assessment / Aubrey Sheiham and Georgios Tsakos -- Reviewing existing data: appraising the evidence / Rebecca Harris -- The management of change / David Gibbons -- Principles and methods of oral epidemiology / Flemming Scheutz -- Issues in statistics relevant to the design and analysis of community oral health studies / Albert Kingman and Girvan Burnside -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: dental caries / Helen Whelton and Denis O'Mullane -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: periodontal diseases / Esmonde Corbet -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: oral cancer / Martin Downer -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: dental trauma / Ulf Glendor and Lars Andersson -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: developmental enamel defects / Terry Cutress, Grace Suckling, and Clare Ketley -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: dentofacial irregularities / William C. Shaw and Elizabeth Turbill -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: tooth wear / Rebecca Moazzez and David Bartlett -- Trends in oral health / Nigel Pitts and Gail Topping -- Principles of oral health promotion / David Locker, Evelyn Wexler, and Lone Schou -- Theory-based approaches to the planning and evaluation of oral health education programmes / Pauline Adair and Angela Ashcroft -- Nutrition, dietary guidelines, and food policy / Allan Hackett, Andrew Rugg-Gunn and Paula Moynihan -- Practical aspects of oral health promotion / Richard Watt and Sabrina Susan Fuller -- Community-based strategies for preventing dental caries / Brian Burt and Stephen Eklund -- Water fluoridation / Sheila Jones and Michael Lennon -- The principles of organisation and models of delivery of oral health care / Helen C. Gift and Ronald M. Andersen -- Varieties of oral health care systems: compulsory dental health insurance in Belgium / Jackie Vanobbergen -- Varieties of oral health care systems: public dental services: organisation and financing of oral health care services in the Nordic countries / Dorthe Holst -- Varieties of oral health care systems: predominantly private dental care: delivery of oral health care in the United States / Chester Douglas -- Varieties of oral health care systems: emerging market economies: delivery of oral health care in China / Edward Lo and Xi Ping Feng -- Principles and practices of health economics / Alan Haycox, Angela Boland, and Rebecca Harris -- Model answers of all chapters.

Focusing on the basic principles of public health as they apply to oral health, the chapters here outline the approaches to community oral health analysis, systematic approaches in oral disease prevention and health promotion, the design of cost- effective intervention programmes and community oral health research.