273216 Development of dental public health curriculum including CDC data and surveillance resources

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Michael Manz, DDS, MPH, DrPH , Crse, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Oral Health encourages use of oral health surveillance data to inform public health and healthcare system decisions, and provides support through various oral health data resources and web-based data query tools. A current CDC DOH project is developing curriculum materials to inform dental and dental hygiene students about specific oral health data resources and enable use of these resources. This CDC project is contributing to a Health Resources and Services Administration funded AAPHD project to develop a comprehensive dental public health curriculum. This comprehensive curriculum is intended for implementation in dental and dental hygiene schools to cover major themes and address DPH competencies developed by project members. The CDC project curriculum materials will contribute to parts of the AAPHD curriculum focusing on evidence-based approaches to oral health care and decision making, and more specifically, to accessing population-based health data for oral health promotion, patient care, and quality improvement.

Learning Areas:
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Other professions or practice related to public health
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe various oral health data resources and their importance in evidence-based approaches 2. Describe development of the CDC project curriculum specific to use of oral health data resources 3. Describe how the CDC project data resource curriculum materials contribute to the AAPHD DPH curriculum themes related to evidence-based dental approaches and use of population-based oral health data.

Keywords: Curricula, Surveillance

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been a surveillance consultant for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors, and for many states. I have worked on many projects addressing surveillance and data resources. I will discuss dental public health curriculum development for the AAPHD project in the areas of surveillance and data resources as part of a project I am currently working on with the CDC’s Division of Oral Health.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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