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- Title
Guest Editorial.
- Authors
Peres, Marco A.; Brennan, David S
- Abstract
This Special Issue of the Australian Dental Journal coincides with an unprecedented health event in the 21st century: the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the social and economic consequences of the disease, the vivid debate about the most effective public health measures to tackle the epidemic and the global spread of the epidemic,[1] people worldwide are becoming familiar with words such as "epidemiology", "epidemic curve", "fatality rate", "surveillance systems" "prediction", "modelling", among other. Two central assumptions support this definition and, therefore, Epidemiology itself: (i) the diseases, health conditions, and their determinants are not randomly distributed in a population; (ii) the knowledge of these factors has practical implications for the control and prevention of diseases and health problems.[2] This Special Issue of the Australian Dental Journal is about epidemiology, more precisely about oral epidemiology, the branch of epidemiology dedicated to oral diseases and disorders its socioeconomic, behavioural and health services related factors.
- Subjects
ORAL health; DISEASES; COVID-19 pandemic
- Publication
Australian Dental Journal, 2020, Vol 65, pS3
- ISSN
0045-0421
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/adj.12770