Community Foundations (DHYG 3364)
This course enables learners to develop and apply foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes in population and public health principles and strategies to a novice level that enable individuals, groups, communities and populations to improve their health and well-being and reduce inequities. ??This course prepares the learner for Community Practice.?
Course code: DHYG 3364
Credits: 7.0
Tuition: $0
Length: 114.0 hours
Course outline:
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- The dental hygienist's role in community health
- Population health theories and models
- Health promotion and oral disease prevention communities and target populations
- Political, social, marketing, and economic influences on population health
- Epidemiology of oral disease
- Critical analysis of scientific literature
- Instructional methodology, elements of instruction, and adult learning principles
- Community program planning to address heatlh inequities
- Community development and capacity building
- Impacts of colonization on the health and well being of the Indigenous people of Canada
- Cultural safety and humility
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
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