oral health and disease in the population Flashcards
Why do we insteps groups of people in the population?
In order to record the pattern of oral health and disease for geographical areas or groups of people
What is epidemiology?
the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems
How can information gathered about oral health be used?
Can be used to help look at what the dental care need are in the population and help direct appropriate acre to locations
What can epidemiology help us target?
targeting of prevention of oral diseases where the patterns in particular locations indicate that extra effort is required to reduce the burden of disease in certain areas or groups.
Name three different approaches ew can take in epidemiology
- Surveillance and descriptive studies
- Analytical studies
- Experimental epidemiology
What are the majority of epidemiological studies concerned with?
With the surveillance of disease patterns
Give an example of a dental survey that is conducted in the UK
Regular surveys conducted to examine how healthy the dentition of children is
What does the term proportionate universalism mean?
That you would give healthcare or preventive efforts which are proportional to needs
What can surveillance and descriptive studies be used for?
To study distribution of disease
What can analytical studies be used for?
To study determinants of disease
What does experimental epidemiology assess?
Assess the effects if treatments, preventative measured and interventions programmes
Who do epidemiological surveys help?
They help those who plan community health improvements to know whereto target their efforts
What does descriptive epidemiology describe?
The distribution of disease, risk factors and determinants of health in population or sub group
Give some features of descriptive epidemiology
- Theres no hypothesis
- Often makes use of routinely collected data
- Describes disease in relation to characteristic of the population
What can descriptive epidemiology be useful for?
Can be useful in identifying scope for research into causation, service planning and identifying high risk groups and inequalities
Name the most common type of epidemiology
Descriptive epidemiology
What stuff do you need to collect when carrying out a descriptive epidemiology survey?
- What you see in the mouth
- Age
- Sex
- Ethnicity
Give examples of some descriptive epidemiology studies
The caries surveys conducted by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD)
How is the information collected by the caries surveys conducted by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD) used?
Used to study the distribution of disease ie which areas of the UK have higher to lower levels of caries
This is used to compare percentages between different geographical areas and also monitor year on year whether there is more or less caries in the population.
Descriptive epidemiology was pivotal in demonstrating the oral healthy improvements which too place when __________ was introduced
Fluoride toothpaste
Who was noted as the first person to conduct epidemiological research?
John snow
Give an example of descriptive epidemiology in a noon dental setting
study is that conducted by John Snow to study the outbreakof a very dangerous disease
Give examples of descriptive epidemiology for oral health and disease
- Hopewood house study
- Adult dental healthy survey
- BASCD survey
4 General lifestyle survey - National diet and nutrition survey
What does analytical epidemiology explore?
Explores the causes an determinants of a certain disease
It is hypothesis testing
Give the types of analytical epidemiology
1 Case control
2. Cohort studies
What is the purpose of a case control study?
To establish association between exposure to risk factors and a disease
How is a case control study carried out?
Members of the population with disease are selected as cases and risk factor information considered retrospectively
What can case control studies be prone to?
Bias and confounding
Give an example of a dental case study
Risk factors fo dental fluorosis in a fluoridated community
What do we mean by the term incidence?
Rate at which new cases of the disease occur in a population during a specified time period
What do we mean by the term prevalence?
Proportion of a population that are cases at a specific point in time