Medical and Dental Missions

Dental Missions Andrew

We’re launching our new website for our Dental Missions Society.

We’ll be posting information on medical and dental missions. Information on how to get involved and tips for making your impact on the world through a cross cultural experience.

If you’ve never been on any form of medical missions, it can be a pretty daunting experience. I know personally that my first experience in a third-world country was something I could have never really imagined or braced myself for. The great extent and impact poverty had on the society was unimaginable for my young mind to grasp. Seeing it first hand was truly eye opening.

We hope to bring a little of this awareness through this website and get you ready for dental missions and truly helping and making a huge impact on a life that may very well be lost without you.

ByAndrew

The Lancet Public Health

[Articles] All-cause and cause-specific mortality inequalities between people with and without disability: a nationwide data linkage study in Australia
People with disability experience large mortality inequalities. Identifying intervention-amenable factors contributing to these inequalities should be a priority. Targeted interventions and policy reforms to create a more inclusive social and health-care environment for people with disability might be necessary.
[Comment] Closing the mortality gap for people with disabilities
There are about 1·3 billion people with disability globally, and their higher mortality rates mean that they are dying about 14 years earlier than people without disability.1,2 In this issue of The Lancet Public Health, Yi Yang and colleagues’ study3 adds to this literature. Using large-scale longitudinal data from 15 million Australians, they showed that […]
[Corrections] Correction to Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e295–305
Tetzlaff F, Sauerberg M, Grigoriev P, et al. Age-specific and cause-specific mortality contributions to the socioeconomic gap in life expectancy in Germany, 2003–21: an ecological study. Lancet Public Health 2024; 9: e295–305—In figure 1 of this Article, sex data were plotted incorrectly. This correction has been made as of Nov 25, 2024.
[Series] Public health interventions against childhood obesity in China
China is confronted with the challenge of increasing childhood obesity. Although interventions for childhood obesity have been developed, their effectiveness and implementation can vary considerably across nations. In this paper, we review and consolidate the evidence on childhood obesity intervention strategies aimed at multiple levels and components across life, in China. School-based interventions, primarily delivered […]