Revision session cards

Question 1

What is the level of evidence regarding breastfeeding?

Answer 1

Strong

Question 2

What is the recommendationd of fluoride concentration of tp for a child aged up to 3 years?

Answer 2

No less than 1000ppm

Question 3

What is the most correct way to describe how fluoride works in the pre eruptive phase?

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

On a prescription for Duraphat 5000ppm what percentage concentration would you need to specify?

Answer 4

1.1%

Question 5

What is the recommended amount of salt for an adult per day?

Answer 5

6 grams

Question 6

What BPE scorings does the BSP recommend can be used in a 14 year old patients?

Answer 6

0, 1, 2, 3, 4. Ages 12-17 should use full index as 7s should have erupted.

Question 7

What type of screening is the national programme or cervical cancers?

Answer 7

Population (Mass) screening. As it is a large scale screening and is usually done b invitation.

Question 8

What is this a description of ‘A characteristic that has been directly shown to cause disease’?

Answer 8

Risk factor

Question 9

What is not a distinguishing factor between causation and association?

Answer 9

Observation

Question 10

Prevalence is…

Answer 10

the number of cases in a population in a given time.

Question 11

Incidence is…

Answer 11

the number of new cases in a given population during a specific time period.

Question 12

When did NDEP start?

Answer 12

Has been annually since 1985

Question 13

What is an index?

Answer 13

An index is an instrument that enables the quantity of a disease or state that can be handled.

Question 14

Examples of common indices

Answer 14

DMFT, BPE, IOTN, DDE

Question 15

What is not a domain in the IMD 2019?

Answer 15

Car Ownership

Question 16

What indices are used to measure social disadvantage?

Answer 16

Jarman underprivileged area score, Townsend index, Carstairs index, Index of Multiple deprivation

Question 17

How many policy objectives did the marmont review recommend?

Answer 17

6

Question 18

DBOH is an example of which approach to prevention?

Answer 18

Proportionate Universalism

Question 19

What is not mentioned on the Ottawa Charter?

Answer 19

Making sure all children achieve minimum of 8 GCSEs

Question 20

In the Tannahill model of health promotion, where would immunisation of covid 19 sit?

Answer 20

Prevention

Question 21

What bests suits the phrase ‘the extent to which a measure, procedure or instrument yields the same results on repeated trials’?

Answer 21

Reliability

Question 22

Which research tradition could be used to examine variations in beliefs of health in illness between social and cultural groups?

Answer 22

Ethnography

Question 23

What are example types of data for qualitative data?

Answer 23

Audio, written and visual

Question 24

What is quantitative research?

Answer 24

It involves numbers, proportions, statistics, testing hypothesis.

Question 25

What is hypothesis testing

Answer 25

Used in quantitative research to justify what you are testing.

Question 26

Calculate the mean of these results; 1,1,2,3,4,5,7,9,13

Answer 26

5

Question 27

What is true with regards to standard distribution?

Answer 27

In a positively skewed distribution the long tail is to the right.

Question 28

Which statistical test would you use to compare the means of two paired groups?

Answer 28

Paired T test

Question 29

what is true regarding correlation?

Answer 29

R2 is the percentage variability

Question 30

Which is the most appropriate statistical test to use to compare to variables?

Answer 30

Linear regression