Public Health Dentistry
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Course Introduction
Public Health Dentistry focuses on the prevention and control of dental diseases and the promotion of oral health through organized community efforts. This course examines the principles and practices of dental public health, including epidemiology of oral diseases, preventive strategies at the population level, oral health policy development, and program planning and evaluation. Students learn about health promotion, risk assessment, and methods for effective oral health education in various community settings. The course also covers dental care delivery systems, the role of public health agencies, and the social, cultural, and environmental factors influencing oral health outcomes, equipping students to address oral health disparities and improve community well-being.
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Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist 4th Edition by Christine
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Chapter 1: People's Health: An Introduction
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Q1) Which of the following terms refers to the effort that is organized by society to protect, promote, and restore the health and quality of life?
A) Class structure
B) Population demographics
C) Social stratification
D) Public health
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following are criteria for identifying public health problems? (Select all that apply.)
A) Capacity to implement control measures
B) Communicability
C) Cost of procedures
D) International requirements
E) Economics
Answer: A, B, D, E
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Chapter 2: Careers in Public Health for the Dental Hygienist
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Q1) Which of the following is one solution to the access to care problem adopted by many states?
A) Opened new dental hygiene programs
B) Increased funding to construct new community treatment facilities
C) Changed restrictive dental practice acts
D) Supported the development of new mass transit systems
Answer: C
Q2) The dental hygienist who educates patients in a diabetes program about the relationship between diabetes and oral health is fulfilling which of the following career paths?
A) Advocate
B) Researcher
C) Corporate
D) Educator
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Assessment for Community Oral Health Program Planning
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Q1) Changing perspectives of health in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries include all except which of the following?
A) Changes in the professional ethos
B) Migration of populations
C) Shift in third-party reimbursement
D) Teledentistry
Answer: C
Q2) The Minnesota Community Health Assessment and Action Planning (CHAAP), the North Carolina Community Health Assessment Guide, and Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE) are examples of which of the following?
A) Community health services
B) Community health assessment models
C) Initiatives of Healthy People 2010
D) Epidemiology studies
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Measuring Oral Health Status and Progress
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Q1) When the health of a community is assessed, oral health is found to be an important concern for (Select all that apply.)
A) Children
B) Adults
C) Elderly people
D) None of above
Q2) According to the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD) Basic Screening Survey (BSS) methods, untreated dental caries is generally detected:
A) by radiography.
B) by visual inspection.
C) with a laser caries detection device.
D) with an explorer.
Q3) The Community Periodontal Index (CPI) was developed by which of the following organizations?
A) WHO
B) NIH
C) CDC
D) NIDCR
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Chapter 5: Population Health
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Q1) According to the National Cancer Institute Survey, which of the following statements reflects the rate of oral cancer from 2007 to 2011?
A) 11 per 100,000 per year
B) 6.5 per 100,000 per year
C) 5 per 100,000 per year
D) 2.5 per 100,000 per year
Q2) Most oral cancers are which of the following?
A) Osteogenic sarcomas
B) Pleomorphic adenomas
C) Squamous cell carcinomas
D) Melanomas
Q3) Public programs covering dental care include which of the following?
A) Medicaid
B) Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
C) Medicare
D) Medicaid and CHIP
Q4) Of the following, which has the lowest 5-year cancer survival rate?
A) Localized
B) Metastasized
C) Spread to regional lymph nodes
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Chapter 6: Oral Health Programs in the Community
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Q1) Which of the following is true for evaluation of a community oral health program?
A) Evaluation determines whether the program accomplishes what it was designed to accomplish.
B) A summary of what went well and what did not is adequate.
C) A negative outcome means that the program has been a failure.
D) Drawing conclusions based on intuition is adequate.
Q2) The Early Head Start program was established in fiscal year 1995 to serve children from birth to what age?
A) 1 year
B) 2 years
C) 3 years
D) 4 years
Q3) During much of the 1990s, which of the following was the number one health issue affecting Head Start programs nationwide?
A) Lack of funding
B) Lack of motivation
C) Poor access to oral health services
D) Poor compliance
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Chapter 7: Applied Research
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Q1) Which of the following scales of measurement is the most powerful?
A) Nominal
B) Ordinal
C) Interval
D) Ratio
Q2) Another name for t-test for dependent samples is which of the following?
A) Paired samples
B) Matched samples
C) Repeated measures t-test
D) Paired samples, matched samples, and repeated measure t-tests
Q3) A result presented as either a positive or negative relationship is the result of which statistical method?
A) Confidence
B) A normal distribution
C) Correlation
D) Median
Q4) A Type I alpha error is which of the following?
A) When the researcher rejects the null hypothesis
B) When the researcher accepts the null hypothesis
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Chapter 8: Health Promotion and Health Communication
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Q1) The Ottawa Charter identifies three basic health promotion strategies: advocacy for health, enabling people to achieve their full health potential, and which of the following?
A) Reducing disparities in the health care delivery system
B) Mediating different societal interests in pursuit of health
C) Removing the barriers that deny access to the health care system
D) Thriving as citizens
Q2) Of the following, which method is appropriate for determining, prior to a launch, whether the messages are at the appropriate language and literacy level and culturally acceptable to the intended audience?
A) An audiovisual presentation to the staff
B) Review of the material with local linguistic experts
C) Testing through social media
D) Focus group
Q3) Empowerment is a key facet of which of the following health promotion theories?
A) Community organization theory
B) Organizational change: stage theory
C) Diffusion of innovations theory
D) Stages of change theory
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Chapter 9: Social Responsibility
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Q1) The shortage of dental professionals has led to new interest in:
A) shortening the length of the professional school curriculum.
B) increasing support for creation of more dental professional schools.
C) introducing a credential for a dental midlevel provider.
D) reducing entry restrictions for graduates of foreign dental professional programs.
Q2) The major social responsibility of all health care providers is which of the following?
A) Assess and quantify oral health needs.
B) Develop personal relationships with policy makers.
C) Collaborate with partners.
D) Educate the public and policy makers regarding how to meet the demand for services.
Q3) Successful risk communication:
A) convinces the person that the risks outweigh the benefits.
B) limits the level of people's understanding of relevant issues.
C) reassures those involved that they are adequately informed within the limits of available knowledge.
D) ensures that the person will proceed with the desired behavior despite the risks.
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Chapter 10: Cultural Competence
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Q1) The Kleinman explanatory model assists with the gathering of information by:
A) using visual rather than auditory cues.
B) asking the client questions.
C) using prepackaged software with a computer touch screen.
D) using multiple interviewers.
Q2) A lack of cultural interchange and adaptation could be called ___________, which is judging other cultures by your own standards consistent with your values, not theirs.
A) stereotyping
B) prejudice
C) ethnocentrism
D) cultural competency
Q3) Which step on the cultural continuum is characterized by acceptance and respect for difference?
A) Cultural blindness
B) Cultural precompetence
C) Cultural competence
D) Cultural proficiency
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Chapter 11: Service-Learning: Preparing Dental Hygienists
for Collaborative Practice
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Q1) Service-learning is which of the following?
A) A dynamic format and process
B) A nonstructured format and structured process
C) A structured format and sequenced process
D) A dynamic process and sequenced format
Q2) The purpose of the OHRC is which of the following?
A) To act as a survey instrument for states and community needs
B) To respond to the needs of states and communities in addressing current and emerging public oral health issues
C) To assist in establishing SLOs for dental hygiene education
D) To provide sound risk management
Q3) Retirement of the most influential generation means which of the following for the ADHA?
A) A need to develop the next generation of leaders
B) Support members to use technology
C) Work with for-profit schools to improve standards
D) Guide practitioners to new fields of practice
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