News, Media and Events

• The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released a new report on 26th June 2009

  Relative needs index study, South Australia and New South Wales

  AIHW Cat. No. DEN 194

• The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released a new report on 1st June 2009

  Oral health of health cardholders attending for dental care in the private and public sectors

  AIHW Cat. No. DEN 196

• The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released a new report on 12th May 2009

Caring for oral health in Australian residential care

AIHW catalogue number (DEN 193).

• Dental health scheme proposed to reform ailing system (ABC 7.30 Report, March 26 2009)

• The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released a new report on 17th March 2009

Geographic variation in oral health and use of dental services in the Australian population 2004-06

AIHW catalogue number (DEN 188).

Click on the link to view the media release and report.

• Nine News (Mon Feb. 16 2009) : Dental plan 'needs Medicare levy rise'

• Newly released research report (December 2008): Oral health of adults in the public dental sector

• New Research Reports for AIHW Dental Statistics and Research Unit (No 38, 39, 40, 42, 43)

• New reports for AIHW Dental Statistics and Research Unit Research Report Series

DSRU research report series No 38, released 3rd November 2008.

Projected demand and supply for dental visits in Australia: analysis of the impact of changes in key inputs

• Working papers prepared by ARCPOH for the Monitoring Group of Australia’s National Oral Health Plan 2004–2013

• ARCPOH researchers have won four new NHMRC grants to start from 2009

  • Insurance, use of dental services and oral health (Chief Investigator: A/Pr David S Brennan)
  • Economic evaluation of the costs and benefits of options for publicly funded dental care provision in Australia (Chief Investigators: Prof A John Spencer, A/Pr Xueyan Zhao, Dr Anne E Sanders, Ms Lisa C Gold, Dr Jane E Harford)
  • Natural history of dental fluorosis (Chief Investigators: Dr Loc G Do, Prof A. John Spencer)
  • Caries initiation (Chief Investigators: Prof A. John Spencer, Dr Loc G Do, Dr Pingzhou Liu, Dr Jason Armfield)

• The National Survey of Adult Oral Health 2004-06 (State and territory reports)

AIHW Cat. No. DEN 175-182

These reports, released 7th August 2008, present findings from the 2004-06 National Survey of Adult Oral Health (NSAOH). Information was collected using interviews and standardised dental examinations that were conducted among a sample of residents aged 15 years or more.

• New reports for AIHW Dental Statistics and Research Unit Research Report Series

DSRU research report series No 33-37, released 7th August 2008.

• International recognition for dental scientist

  Professor Gary Slade, the Co-Director of ARCPOH, has been awarded the H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award. The award is given for distinguished accomplishments in research and development in the fields of behavioural science, epidemiology, and public health. It is one of the IADR's Distinguished Scientist Awards, is supported by the Colgate-Palmolive Company in memory of H. Trendley Dean, a former president of the IADR and the first dental officer of the National Institute of Health. (for more information)

• Australia’s dental generations: The National Survey of Adult Oral Health 2004–06

  “Australia’s dental generations: The National Survey of Adult Oral Health 2004–06”, has been launched by the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon. Tony Abbott, at the 32nd Australian Dental Congress in Sydney. The report demonstrates how historical influences on oral health through the 20th century have created four distinct “dental generations” that now constitute the Australian adult population.

  To view more about the project and its publications, please click NSAOH.

  To view media releases about the project, please click AIHW Media Centre and Latest News & Events.

• Colgate Continuing Professional Development Online Program

DPERU is currently launching a pilot test for its Colgate Continuing Professional Development Online Program. For details of the program, please link to DPERU's Website.

• New Publications (PDF file made available for download)

• News of the School of Dentistry