This course aims to develop knowledge about the terms health, public health, dental public health, and community health. Also, this course identifies public health problems within a community, identifies public health measures or solutions, and relates them to public
healthproblems. This course describes the careers in public health for the dental hygienist.
In addition, this course discuss the measurements of oral health status, health promotion, and health communication. This course aims to develop identify core functions of public health and the essential public health services; relate the essential services to the core functions, and to identify the current issues and limitations of dental public health.