Previous ed.: Oxford : Wright, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.

Principles and practice of public health / Cynthia Pine and Rebecca Harris -- The primary health care approach / Walter Mautsch and Murray Dickson -- Inequalities in oral health: the social context for oral health / Poul Erik Petersen -- Oral health needs assessment / Aubrey Sheiham and Georgios Tsakos -- Reviewing existing data: appraising the evidence / Rebecca Harris -- The management of change / David Gibbons -- Principles and methods of oral epidemiology / Flemming Scheutz -- Issues in statistics relevant to the design and analysis of community oral health studies / Albert Kingman and Girvan Burnside -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: dental caries / Helen Whelton and Denis O'Mullane -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: periodontal diseases / Esmonde Corbet -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: oral cancer / Martin Downer --

Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: dental trauma / Ulf Glendor and Lars Andersson -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: developmental enamel defects / Terry Cutress, Grace Suckling, and Clare Ketley -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: dentofacial irregularities / William C. Shaw and Elizabeth Turbill -- Public health aspects of oral diseases and disorders: tooth wear / Rebecca Moazzez and David Bartlett -- Trends in oral health / Nigel Pitts and Gail Topping -- Principles of oral health promotion / David Locker, Evelyn Wexler, and Lone Schou -- Theory-based approaches to the planning and evaluation of oral health education programmes / Pauline Adair and Angela Ashcroft -- Nutrition, dietary guidelines, and food policy / Allan Hackett, Andrew Rugg-Gunn and Paula Moynihan -- Practical aspects of oral health promotion / Richard Watt and Sabrina Susan Fuller --

Community-based strategies for preventing dental caries / Brian Burt and Stephen Eklund -- Water fluoridation / Sheila Jones and Michael Lennon -- The prinicples of organisation and models of delivery of oral health care / Helen C. Gift and Ronald M. Andersen -- Varieties of oral health care systems: compulsory dental health insurance in Belgium / Jackie Vanobbergen -- Varieties of oral health care systems: public dental services: organisation and financing of oral health care services in the Nordic countries / Dorthe Holst -- Varieties of oral health care systems: predominantly private dental care: delivery of oral health care in the United States / Chester Douglas -- Varieties of oral health care systems: emerging market economies: delivery of oral health care in China / Edward Lo and Xi Ping Feng -- Principles and practices of health economics / Alan Haycox, Angela Boland, and Rebecca Harris -- Model answers of all chapters.