Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1945.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1945.

Thesis (M.D.S.)--University of Sydney, 1993. / Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 23, 2009) Degree awarded 1993; thesis submitted 1992. Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Dental Surgery to the Faculty of Dentistry. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

Master of Dental Surgery / At the present time in Australia (1992) there exists no undergraduate training for dental students in auxiliary utilisation. The result of this is that new dental graduates have no understanding of the concept of practicing sit-down four-handed dentistry in a comfortable and efficient manner. This compares with the United States of America (USA) where, since 1961, every dental student receives formal instruction in Dental Assistant Utilisation (DAU) and, since 1973, Training in Expanded Auxiliary Management. In this treatise the history and development of “four-handed dentistry” is presented along with a literature review of the fundamental principles of DAU. The intial pilot programmes and the subsequent federally funded national DAU programme in the USA are analysed. Four undergraduate DAU programmes from the USA and the current graduate continuing education DAU programme at Westmead Hospital Dental Clinical School are examined. Finally, guidelines for the establishment and operation of a DAU programme are outlined. The aim of this treatise therefore, is to provide the necessary information for a thorough understanding of the fundamentals and philosophy of Dental Assistant Utilisation. This information is presented in the hope that at some stage in the future training in assistant utilisation would become an integral and important part of the undergraduate dental curriculum in Australia. The purpose of this would be to fill a major void that currently exists in the undergraduate training of dental students in auxiliary utilisation.

Since the industrial revolution, work and family have been viewed as separate spheres, with women relegated to the family sphere. With the advent of women into the paid labor force, few studies have considered the potentially complex context of women's work and family experiences. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of family structure, occupational status, and workplace relationships on women workers' perceptions of stress. The sample for this study included 379 women dental assistants and hygienists who responded to mailed questionnaires sent to the dental offices where they worked. The dependent variables used in this analysis were mental stress, physical stress, and four social stress items. Analysis of variance was performed for the family structure groups on physical, mental, and social stress items. Single parents and parents in general were especially stressed in terms of financial stress and marital stress. The second series of analyses included t-tests on stress by occupation. Dental assistants had more financial stress than hygienists. Hygienists had more mental stress than assistants. Workplace relationships were assessed in the full regression models. Frequency of talking with fellow workers was strongly and positively associated with financial problems. The full regression models supported the findings in earlier analyses that tensions from children and financial problems were associated with the presence of children in the home. The findings in this study suggest that for women workers, work and family do not occupy separate spheres. Women workers think about family matters at the workplace and discuss them with their other women workers. Further research needs to focus on women workers, especially those in traditionally female occupations, and the work and family connections for these workers. / Graduation date: 1992

Master of Dental Surgery / At the present time in Australia (1992) there exists no undergraduate training for dental students in auxiliary utilisation. The result of this is that new dental graduates have no understanding of the concept of practicing sit-down four-handed dentistry in a comfortable and efficient manner. This compares with the United States of America (USA) where, since 1961, every dental student receives formal instruction in Dental Assistant Utilisation (DAU) and, since 1973, Training in Expanded Auxiliary Management. In this treatise the history and development of “four-handed dentistry” is presented along with a literature review of the fundamental principles of DAU. The intial pilot programmes and the subsequent federally funded national DAU programme in the USA are analysed. Four undergraduate DAU programmes from the USA and the current graduate continuing education DAU programme at Westmead Hospital Dental Clinical School are examined. Finally, guidelines for the establishment and operation of a DAU programme are outlined. The aim of this treatise therefore, is to provide the necessary information for a thorough understanding of the fundamentals and philosophy of Dental Assistant Utilisation. This information is presented in the hope that at some stage in the future training in assistant utilisation would become an integral and important part of the undergraduate dental curriculum in Australia. The purpose of this would be to fill a major void that currently exists in the undergraduate training of dental students in auxiliary utilisation.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1994. / Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Lee Knefelkamp. Dissertation Committee: Harvey Kaye. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 384-407).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Loyola University of Chicago, 1997. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Loyola University of Chicago, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references.

No final da década dos 70 e início da década dos 80, em diferentes regiões do Brasil, os serviços públicos - tanto aqueles existentes quanto aqueles começando a se estruturar - passam a utilizar pessoal de nível elementar e médio para auxiliar nas ações de atenção à saúde bucal. No Estado de São Paulo, embora inúmeros sistemas locais de saúde (SILOS) venham empregando pessoal auxiliar odontológico (PAO), existe pouca informação disponível sobre a contribuição dada por estes trabalhadores à essas ações. O objetivo desta investigação foi de analisar a participação do PAO em dez SILOS de cinco municípios do Estado de São Paulo, em 1994. Um questionário foi respondido por 248 (76,3 por cento) dos 325 auxiliares e técnicos em higiene dental empregados nos municípios de ltú, Embú, Penápolis, São José dos Campos e Campinas. Os resultados indicaram que a maioria do PAO é jovem, do sexo feminino, possui 2° grau completo, curso de qualificação profissional, tem vínculo municipal e trabalha 40 horas/semana, sendo que, recebem entre US$ 119,00 e US$ 330,00 no exercício da função de ACD e entre US$ 162,00 e US$ 232,00 como THD. Sua participação em atividades de promoção da saúde bucal é relativa e varia conforme o SILOS em estudo: nos SILOS do Embú e das regiões norte e leste de S. José do Campos, o PAO vem dedicando sua jornada de trabalho mais para ações coletivas que para ações de assistência individual, contribuindo para a transformação das práticas da odontologia em saúde coletiva e para a mudança do modelo assistencial conforme as diretrizes de saúde bucal e os princípios do SUS. A participação do PAO é mais frequente em atividades de evidenciação de placa bacteriana seguida de escovação supervisionada (ES), bochechos fluorados e atividades educativas. A participação em ações coletivas é maior quando se trata da realização dessas atividades em escolas ou outros espaços sociais. Entretanto, em ltú, Embú e Penápolis, o pessoal auxiliar desenvolve de forma significativa atividades de ES em unidades básicas de saúde, atingindo com atividades de promoção da saúde bucal grupos populacionais que as frequentam. Excetuando-se os três SILOS de Campinas e o de ltú, é baixa a proporção do PAO que trabalha à quatro-mãos rotineiramente. Os SILOS de ltú, Embú e Penápolis apresentam maior grau de delegação de funções ao PAO na assistência individual que os SILOS dos municípios de São José dos Campos e Campinas. Segundo o pessoal auxiliar, a população-usuária reage positivamente e aceita bem os seus serviços. Além disso, os cirurgiões-dentistas têm um relacionamento profissional bom ou muito bom com eles, prestam-lhes orientações sempre que necessário e, na opinião deles, devem manter o grau de orientação corrente. / At the end of the seventies and begining of the eighties, dental public services from different areas of Brazil started to introduce basically and intermediately trainned personnel to assist dental care activities. This happened both in services in operation at the time and in those which were begining to be structured. In São Paulo State, although several health local systems are employing dental auxiliary personnel, we know there is a small number of studies in this field and also little information about this personnel. The purpose of this survey was to document the role and extent of dental auxiliary personnel in some state public health programmes in São Paulo State, 1994. A questionnaire requested information from 248 (76,3 per cent) auxiliarias of 325 dental assistants and dental hygienists employed in the health municipal systems of ltú, Embú, Penápolis, São José dos Campos and Campinas (towns in São Paulo State). The results indicated that most of them are young, female sex, went through high school and professional qualification course, work forty hours a week and receive between US$ 119,00 and US$ 330,00 in dental assistant function and between US$ 162,00 and US$ 232,00 in dental hygienist function. Their participation in oral healh promotion activities is relative and varies according to each town reality: in Embú and in the north and east health local systems of São José dos Campos, the working time of auxiliary personnel is spent more in oral health promotion activities than in dental clinic activities, contributing to the transformation of public health dentistry practice according to the principies of health systems in Brazil. This \' participation occurs more often in fluoride mouthrinse, dental plaque staining followed by supervised brushing and oral health education activities. The participation in oral health promotion activities happens more often in schools than in health centers. However, in ltú, Embú and Penápolis, the auxiliarias provide expressively dental plaque staining followed by supervised brushing in health centers, reaching population groups who use them. Excluding the health local systems of Campinas and ltú, the proportion of them who practice four-handed dentistry daily is low. ltú, Embú and Penápolis present high grade of expanded functions to auxiliary personnel in dental clinic activities. According to the auxiliary personnel, the aided population answer positively and accept their services well. Besides, dentists have a good or very good professional relationship with them, give them orientation everytime it is necessary; also, in their opinion, dentists ought to keep up the corrent levei of supervision.