Tools of Dental Public Health with Mnemonics

Tools of Dental Public Health

Tools of Dental Public Health

Mnemonics: @PESAB (पिसाब)

Where,

P - Preventive Dentistry

E - Epidemiology

S - Social Sciences

A - Administrative Principles

B - Biostatistics

1. Preventive Dentistry

Prevention is defined as “actions aimed at eradicating, eliminating or minimizing the impact of diseases and disability.

The concept of prevention is best defined in the context of levels, traditionally called, primary,secondary and tertiary prevention”.

a. Primordial Prevention: Concerned with the prevention of emergence or development of risk factors.

b. Primary Prevention: Includes health promotion and specific protection

c. Secondary Prevention: Includes early diagnosis and prompt treatment

d. Tertiary Prevention: Includes disability limitation and rehabilitation

2. Epidemiology

Defined as ‘the study of the distribution and determinants of health related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to control health problems’.

[Last 1988]

Uses

1. Concerned with course and outcome [natural history] of disease in individuals and groups.

2. Causation of disease.

3. Used to describe the health status of the population group

4. Helps in evaluating effectiveness and efficiency of health services [intervention]

3. Social Sciences

It includes:

• sociology
• cultural anthropology and 
• psychology.

Sociology is the study of human groups. Sociology is not concerned with behavior unique to individuals but patterned human relationship.

4. Administrative Principles

Administration is defined as “the art and science of guidance, leadership, and control of the efforts of a group of individuals towards some common goal”.

Elements of Administration:

• Planning
• Organization
• Staffing
• Directing
• Coordinating
• Reporting
• Budgeting
• Supervising
• Evaluation

5. Biostatistics

It is the method of collection, organizing, analyzing, tabulating and interpretation of datas related to living organisms and human beings.

Uses of Biostatistics:

• To test whether the difference between two populations, regarding a particular attribute is real or a chance occurrence.
• To define normalcy.
• To study the association between two or more attribute in the same population.
• To evaluate the efficacy of vaccines by controlled studies.
• To evaluate the progress of public health programs.
• To define and measure the extent of morbidity and mortality in the community.

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