Course in - COMMUNITY ORAL HEALTH
Cape Town, South Africa
Course
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Course in Community Oral Health at The University of the Western Cape trains postgraduate and undergraduate students to diagnose population oral-health problems, identify causes and plan community-level interventions. It covers disease prevention, epidemiology, health services management, behavioral sciences and health promotion, and manages outreach programmes. The department focuses on population dentistry, public health, surveillance and programme planning, emphasizing interdisciplinary cooperation and organized societal action.
Career Outcomes: Graduates work in public health dentistry, oral health programme management, epidemiology, disease prevention and health promotion, community outreach coordination and health-services planning. Roles include policy advisor, researcher, health educator and public-sector clinician.
The Community Oral Health Department? provides undergraduate, as well as postgraduate, programmes which enable students to make a diagnosis of a population’s oral health problems, establish the causes and effects of the problems and plan effective interventions through interdisciplinary co-operation and organised efforts of society. The discipline is concerned with promoting the health of a population, and, therefore, focuses action at the community level as opposed to an individual. It is underpinned by a range of related sciences, e.g. disease prevention, epidemiology (measuring health and disease), health services management and planning and behavioural sciences. The Department is also responsible for managing outreach programmes in the country.
