Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 6th Edition

by Charlene B. Dickinson, RDH, BSDH, MS

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

ISBN: 9780443261824

Page Count: 352

Imprint: Elsevier

List Price: $75.99

$75.99

Or $0.00 with a valid access code

Not Yet Available

Coming Soon!

Expected availability date: 11-02-2026

Build the skills you need to provide effective community oral health care! Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist, 6th Edition, describes the role of the public health professional in improving the oral health care of people throughout the community. It discusses key topics such as access to care, the assessment of community dental health programs, social responsibility and government policy, cultural diversity, and career options in public health, and it enhances your skills in interprofessional communication and collaboration in support of patient care. Written by dental hygiene educator Charlene Dickinson, this book helps you prepare for the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination (NBDHE) and provide quality oral health care to diverse populations.

New to This Edition
- NEW! Content on interprofessional education and practice is reinforced throughout the text to enhance your collaboration with the health care team and support patient care
- NEW! Updated focus on cultural competence and cultural humility ensures you will be ready to provide appropriate care to all populations
Key Features
- Comprehensive, cutting-edge coverage provides everything you need to know to succeed in community dental hygiene practice
- Practice-oriented content includes learning objectives in each chapter, opening statements with lists of key facts, Dental Hygienist Mini-Profiles, Guiding Principles boxes, and Dental Hygiene Competencies
- Applying Your Knowledge and Community Case sections in each chapter provide opportunities to apply what you have learned to local public health problems
- Test-Taking Strategies and Community Cases chapter offers tips and practice questions to help you prepare for the NBDHE, and tests your understanding of content in relation to real-world community situations
- Chapters on population health and oral health programs describe issues affecting access to care as well as common oral diseases and conditions affecting the community, helping you prioritize, plan, implement, and evaluate practical solutions
- Learning resources on the Evolve companion website reinforce your understanding with quizzes and case studies
Related Products
- 6th Edition
  Evolve Resources for Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist
  Resources
  
  ISBN: 9780443381751
Contents

1. People's Health: An Introduction
2. Service-Learning: Preparing Dental Hygienists for Collaborative Practice
3. Assessment for Community Oral Health Programs
4. Measuring Oral Health Status and Progress
5. Population Health
6. Oral Health Programs in the Community
7. Research
8. Health Promotion and Health Communication
9. Social Responsibility
10. Cultural Competence
11. Careers in Public Health for the Dental Hygienist
12. Test-Taking Strategies and Community Cases
Appendix A: Additional Websites for Community Resources and Information for Community Program Planning
Appendix B: Community Oral Health Competencies and Learning Objectives
Appendix C: Community Partnerships for Oral Health
Appendix D: Resources for Community Health Assessment
Appendix E: Selected Oral Conditions and Factors Influencing Oral Health That Can Be Assessed in Oral Health Surveys
Appendix F: Common Dental Indexes
Glossary
Index
Authors

Charlene B. Dickinson, RDH, BSDH, MS, Associate Clinical Professor, Dental Hygiene Program Director, Texas Woman’s University, USA
Accessibility
- Ways of Reading
  - The appearance of the text and page layout can be modified according to the capabilities of the reading system (font family and font size, spaces between paragraphs, sentences, words, and letters, as well as color of background and text)
  - This e-publication is accessible to the full extent that the file format and types of content allow, on a specific reading device, by default, without necessarily including any additions such as textual descriptions of images or enhanced navigation
  - No information about nonvisual reading is available
- Conformance
  - No information is available
- Navigation
  - Table of contents to all chapters of the text via links
  - Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Rich Content
  - No information is available
- Hazards
  - No information is available
- Product Content
  - No information is available
- Legal Considerations
  - No information is available
- Additional Accessibility Information
  - Content is enhanced with ARIA roles to optimize organization and facilitate navigation
  - Page breaks included from the original print source
  - For readers with color vision deficiency, use of color (e.g., in diagrams, graphics and charts, in prompts, or on buttons inviting a response) is not the sole means of graphical distinction or of conveying information
  - E-publication includes basic navigation (usually less detailed than TOC-based navigation)
  - Where links, controls or buttons are included in the content, the purpose or functionality of each link, control or button is apparent from the associated text alone - or where it is unclear, separate link, control or button descriptions are provided
  - All (or substantially all) textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order (including text that is visually presented as separate from the main text flow, e.g., in boxouts, captions, tables, footnotes, endnotes, citations, etc.). Non-textual content is also linked from within this logical reading order. (Purely decorative non-text content can be ignored).
  - The language of the text has been specified (e.g., via the HTML or XML lang attribute) to optimise text-to-speech (and other alternative renderings), both at the whole document level and, where appropriate, for individual words, phrases or passages in a different language.