Oral Health
Childhood epidemiology programme
The Welsh Oral Health Information Unit (WOHIU) plans and delivers the BASCD co-ordinated surveys of children’s oral health together with other epidemiological surveys of priority groups within Wales. The unit provides independent professional advice, quality assurance, data cleaning, data verification, data analysis and a reporting service on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government.
The WOHIU works in collaboration with the National Public Health Service all Wales dental epidemiology co-ordinator, the Community Dental Services and the Welsh Assembly Government (through Dental Division of the Office of the Chief Medical Officer and the Health Statistics and Analysis Unit in the Statistics Directorate) to deliver the surveys. This integrated team approach has ensured that the highest quality assurance standards have been achieved within the childhood epidemiology programme.
Staff:
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Local Health Board - Oral Health Profiles 2012
These oral health profiles provide an overview of oral health for the seven local health boards across Wales. They include information on trends in oral disease, dental caries in 5 and 12 year olds, inequalities in children’s oral health, Designed to Smile, oral health in adults and current service use in relation to need.
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board
Aneurin Bevan Health Board
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cwm Taf Health Board
Hywel Dda Health Board
Powys Teaching Health Board
Annual Reports for childhood oral epidemiology programme
Survey of 12 year olds oral health 2008-09
Survey of five year olds oral health 2007-08
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Survey of five year olds oral health 2005-06
Survey of rising 12 year olds oral health 2004-05
Survey of 5 year olds oral health 2003-04
Ensuring a quality assured epidemology programme
Monaghan NP, Morgan MZ. (2002). Improving the quality of dental data. Faculty of Public Health Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting Conference Proceedings 25-28 June 2002. [Poster presentation]
Morgan MZ, Monaghan NP. (2005). An integrated team approach to improve dental data quality. UK BASCD Coordinators Meeting, London, February 2005.[Poster presentation].
Annual Reports for Nursing & Residential Care Homes
Contact
Welsh Oral Health Information Unit
Mrs Maria Morgan
Email: morganmz@cardiff.ac.uk
Phone: 029 2074 4612
Fax: 029 2074 6489
Welsh Oral Health Information Unit
1st Floor Dental School
Cardiff University School of Dentistry
Heath Park
Cardiff
CF14 4XY
Publications
Davies, GM, Jones CM, Monaghan N, Morgan MZ, Neville JS, Pitts NB. The caries experience of 11 to 12 year-old children in Scotland and Wales and 12 year-olds in England in 2008-2009: Reports of co-ordinated surveys using BASCD methodology. Community Dental Health 2012; 29, 8-13.
Davies GM, Jones CM, Monaghan N, Morgan MZ, Pine CM, Pitts NB, Neville JS,Rooney E. The caries experience of 5 year-old children in Scotland, Wales and Englnd in 2007-2008 and the impact of consent arrangements. Reports of co-ordinated surveys using BASCD criteria. Community Dental Health, (2011), 28, 5-11.
Monaghan NP, Jones SJ and Morgan MZ. Do parents of children with caries choose to opt out of positive consent dental surveys in Wales? British Dental Journal, 210, E1 (2011) Published online: 21 January 2011, doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2011.26
Morgan MZ, Monaghan N. Trends in children’s ability to consent to a dental examination and the potential impact on reported caries indices. Community Dental Health, (2010), 27: 200-205.
Monaghan N, Morgan, MZ. Oral health policy and access to dentistry in care homes. Journal of Disability and Oral Health (2010), 11 (2), p.61-68.
Monaghan N, Morgan, MZ. Consent of older children participating in BASCD coordinated dental epidemiology surveys in Wales. Community Dental Health. (2009), 26, 157-161.