The United Nation's (UN) High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in 2011 recognized oral disease as a major health burden sharing risk factors with other NCDs. That recognition argues for integration of oral disease prevention with the broader public health agenda on NCD reduction.
Discuss the concepts of the UN strategy for NCD reduction and the policies that the dental profession should adopt to prevent oral diseases and other NCDs.
INSTRUCTIONS
Your essay should be 4,000 words in length and should be fully referenced with appropriate scientific references.
Your essay will be double marked by two members of staff who will assess it on the following factors:
Ability to critically discuss the integrated concept of the UN strategy for NCD reduction and its application by the dental profession
Present a well structured and balanced answer that fully addresses all parts of the question in an appropriate academic style of writing.
Essay presented within recommended word limit (10% upper margin accepted).
Please provide word length at end of essay-Citation of appropriate range of scientific references using the Harvard system