Jong's Community Dental Health

Perspective
1 Dental Public Health: An Overview 3
2 The Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health in America:
Defining Challenges for the Future 37
3 The U.S. Dental Care Delivery System and Managed Care: An
Overview 73
4 Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program 91
5 Diversity, Sociocultural Issues, and Communication in Oral
Health Care 105
6 Oral Health and the Aging Population (Geriatric Oral Health)
131
7 New Insights into Early Childhood Caries and Strategies for
Prevention 155
8 The Epidemiology of Oral Diseases 173
9 The Impact of Transmissible Disease on the Practice of
Dentistry 205
10 Effective Community Prevention Programs for Oral Diseases 237
11 Oral Health Education and Health Promotion 277
12 Planning for Community Dental Programs 329
13 Program Evaluation in Health Care 351
14 Overview of Biostatistics 369
15 Accessing and Reading Dental Public Health Research: Evidence-
based Dental Practice 391
16 Ethical Issues in Community Dental Health 425
17 The Law and Dental Practice: Protecting the Health of the
Community 447
Appendix The Organization of Health-Related Activities at the
Federal Level of Government 489