CH23 Dental Public Health Review Flashcards
- Dental public health section contains 24 items
- Testlet format
- Key concepts
- Use your knowledge
•Community Health Research Principles (24)
–a. Promoting Health and Preventing Disease Within Groups (6)
–b. Participating in Community Programs (10)
§1. Assessing populations and defining objectives
§2. Designing, implementing, and evaluating programs
–c. Analyzing Scientific Information, Understanding Statistical Concepts, and Applying Research Results (8)
Notes:
- Be prepared, which will increase your confidence.
- Organize your notes from dental hygiene school and prerequisite classes.
- Outline notes in a manner that works well for you.
- When reviewing notes, look up in text books or Internet any information that is still unclear.
- Review key concepts from professors.
- Review previous board examination questions.
- Study with groups and by yourself.
Notes:
- Keep reviews
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Testlets
- Population specific
- Program planning order
- Health theories
- Educational/promotional activity
- Research related
Notes:
- Target population
- ADPIED
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Testlets•Topics to review
–Standard deviation
–Deft
–Which population to serve
–.2% NaF for weekly application
–H20 Fl = sodium silicofluoride
Public health is serving people without resources: homebound, jailed, finincially burdened
- Know how to formulate an objective –> Specific
- Always remember importance of referral
- Cost effectiveness –> Water fluoridation most cost effective
- Involve local leaders
Testlets
- Committee formation should include those involved in objective if possible
- Medline for search –> Peer Revieewd
- Significance level=.05 p level –> P level
- Central tendencies –> Mean, Median, Mode
- Know dental Indices
- Figure out which population to serve
- Assessment needed
- How did we begin? –> Began as a public health profession
- Use this when choosing the BEST answer.
- Mass education and treatment – prevention
- Medicaid—Title XIX –> vs medicare
- Dental labor force issues
–Need
–Demand
–Utilization
–Supply
Target Population
- Generalizations needed
- Barriers to care
- Leadership groups
- Influence of community leaders
- SES –> big influence on a lot of disease
- Cultural diversity and sensitivity --> ethnocentrism, aculturate
- Assess population first
- Health education –> teaching
- Health promotion –> motivating
- Health education
–Change values
–Practice healthy behaviors
- Stages of learning
- Health belief model
- Empowerment theories
- Motivational theories
•Maslow’s hierarchy
Program Planning
- Assessment
- Dental hygiene diagnosis
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
Note: make sure you know what goes under each category Page 161
Evaluation
- Quantitative –>
- Qualitative –>
- Summative --> Summary
- Formative –> Throughout
Oral Epidemiology
- Decay
- Periodontal diseases
- Gingivitis
- Bleeding
- Plaque, debris, calculus
- Dental fluorosis
- Orthodontic
- Cleft lip/palate
- Oral cancer
