Dental Caries Prevention in the Dominican Republic

ISBN-13: 9783659690433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 96 str.

Brea Dixie

Opis

The prevalence of dental caries is still high in many developing countries affecting mainly the low-income population. Knowledge of dental caries prevention among dental practitioners is one of the main aspects for the effectiveness in the provision of preventive measures. This is the first study to evaluate the application of preventive measures in regards of knowledge and impediments in dental caries prevention and investigate the provision of oral health care services among Dominican dental practitioners in the Dominican Republic. The analysis is based on a cross-sectional study and data collection from self-administered surveys to Dominican dental practitioners working for the private sector.

O autorze

Dixie Brea is a trained dentist from the Dominican Republic. She completed her BA in Sociology at the University of Bergen and has also studied at UC Berkeley. Brea holds an MA in Public Health from the University of Tromsø, where she did the research for this project after doing fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. She currently lives in Oslo.