该计划为学生提供了牙科公共卫生基本原理的坚实基础，这些基本原理侧重于预防口腔疾病的艺术
Find out how oral health is protected around the world. Examine strategies for planning dental services, preventing disease and promoting healthy living.<br>This course explains how oral health can be promoted and protected across society. You will learn how dental public health services are planned, delivered and managed, and how to find practical solutions to public health challenges.<br><br>You will study key concepts in public health, such as how environments and lifestyles can contribute to disease, and social attitudes towards health. You will also focus on specific topics in dentistry, including the epidemiology of oral diseases, strategies for promoting good oral health, and how to design a population's dental services. <br><br>Examples from around the world will help you to understand how dental public health interventions work in practice. You will cover the economics of delivering public health services, the statistical techniques that are used to measure their impact, and policy issues such as affordable healthcare and social inequality.<br><br>Your career<br>This course is great preparation for a PhD and a career in dental public health research. Lots of University of Sheffield graduates work as researchers at top universities and research institutes.<br>You could also go on to an international role advising NGOs on how to deliver their oral health programmes more effectively, and how to support individual nations.