Public Health Basics
This type of prevention aims to prevent disease before it occurs.
What is primary prevention?
This index is used to assess the prevalence and severity of dental caries in children, focusing on the number of decayed, missing, and filled teeth in the permanent dentition.
What is the DMFT Index?
A broad statement of purpose.
What is a program goal?
The most frequently occurring score.
What is the mode?
The number of new cases of a disease in a specific population over a defined period of time.
What is incidence?
This is the first step in a community health program and involves gathering data to identify needs of a specific population.
What is a community needs assessment?
This index is used to measure the degree of gingival inflammation and bleeding in a population, focusing on visible signs of gingival disease.
What is the Gingival Index (GI)?
Specific statements that describe, in a measurable manner, the desired outcomes from program activities.
What is a program objective?
Inferential statistical method that measures two mean scores for statistically significant differences.
What is a t test?
The total number of cases of a disease in a population at a given time.
What is prevalence?
This type of number-based data is used to determine the prevalence of oral diseases in a community, such as surveys, health records, and epidemiological studies
What is quantitative data?
This dental index is commonly used to measure the severity of periodontal disease in terms of treatment needs in a population.
What is the Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs (CPITN)?
This type of evaluation is included during program planning and implementation in order to improve program design and outcomes.
What is formative evaluation?
This inferential statistic measures three or more mean scores.
What is ANOVA?
The most common chronic disease of children aged 6 to 11 years and adolescents aged 12 to 19 years.
What is dental caries?
To prevent disease and promote the health of populations.
What is the primary goal of public health?
This index assesses cleanliness of teeth based on the presence of soft deposits and is often used in oral hygiene studies.
What is the Plaque Index (PI)?
Conducting a small-scale trial of a program to identify any issues before full implementation.
What is pilot testing?
The positive square root of the variance, this statistic describes the spread of scores around the mean of the distribution.
What is standard deviation?
In the U.S. 47.3% of adults aged 45 to 74 have this chronic disease.
What is periodontitis?
Conditions in which people are born, grow, work, and live, that influence health risks and outcomes.
What are social determinants of health?
This index is designed to measure the prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis in a population and is often used in fluoride exposure and risk studies.
What is the Dean's Fluorosis Index?
Program objectives that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
What does the acronym "SMART" stand for?
the r ranges from +1.0 to -1.0 and indicates the strength of an association between two variables.
What is correlation coefficient?
Type of analytic study that establishes incidence, determines risk, and can infer cause-effect relationships (causality) when longitudinal.
What is a cohort study?