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DBOH, Prevention, Public health promotion
What is the level of evidence regarding breastfeeding?
Strong
What is the recommendationd of fluoride concentration of tp for a child aged up to 3 years?
No less than 1000ppm
What is the most correct way to describe how fluoride works in the pre eruptive phase?
Fluoride is ingested and incorporated into the developing tooth during mineralisation, favouring the crystallisation of larger and more regular fluorapatite crystals which are less susceptible to acid dissolution.
On a prescription for Duraphat 5000ppm what percentage concentration would you need to specify?
1.1%
What is the recommended amount of salt for an adult per day?
6 grams
What BPE scorings does the BSP recommend can be used in a 14 year old patients?
0, 1, 2, 3, 4. Ages 12-17 should use full index as 7s should have erupted.
What type of screening is the national programme or cervical cancers?
Population (Mass) screening. As it is a large scale screening and is usually done b invitation.
What is this a description of ‘A characteristic that has been directly shown to cause disease’?
Risk factor
What is not a distinguishing factor between causation and association?
Observation
Prevalence is…
the number of cases in a population in a given time.
Incidence is…
the number of new cases in a given population during a specific time period.
When did NDEP start?
Has been annually since 1985
What is an index?
An index is an instrument that enables the quantity of a disease or state that can be handled.
Examples of common indices
DMFT, BPE, IOTN, DDE
What is not a domain in the IMD 2019?
Car Ownership
What indices are used to measure social disadvantage?
Jarman underprivileged area score, Townsend index, Carstairs index, Index of Multiple deprivation
How many policy objectives did the marmont review recommend?
6
DBOH is an example of which approach to prevention?
Proportionate Universalism
What is not mentioned on the Ottawa Charter?
Making sure all children achieve minimum of 8 GCSEs
In the Tannahill model of health promotion, where would immunisation of covid 19 sit?
Prevention
What bests suits the phrase ‘the extent to which a measure, procedure or instrument yields the same results on repeated trials’?
Reliability
Which research tradition could be used to examine variations in beliefs of health in illness between social and cultural groups?
Ethnography
What are example types of data for qualitative data?
Audio, written and visual
What is quantitative research?
It involves numbers, proportions, statistics, testing hypothesis.
What is hypothesis testing
Used in quantitative research to justify what you are testing.
Calculate the mean of these results; 1,1,2,3,4,5,7,9,13
5
What is true with regards to standard distribution?
In a positively skewed distribution the long tail is to the right.
Which statistical test would you use to compare the means of two paired groups?
Paired T test
what is true regarding correlation?
R2 is the percentage variability
Which is the most appropriate statistical test to use to compare to variables?
Linear regression
