DHYG 222Dental Public Health I

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Dental Public Health DHYG 222 consists of didactic work components in community services. It is designed to enable dental hygiene students to identify dental hygiene career opportunities within the public health setting, describe the structure and function of public health, explain federal, state, and local legislation, policies and procedures pertaining to public health, assess the dental needs and demands of the public including specific demographic populations that require assessment, dental hygiene diagnosis, implementation, planning and evaluating community group populations.