Overview and Prevention
Agencies
Biostatistics
Research
Epidemiology
100
A condition or situation the is a widespread actual or potential cause of morbidity or mortality and is perceived as a problem by the public
What is a public health Problem?
100
Department of Health and Human Services
What is the largest grant making agency in the United States Government
100
Data that can be expressed in a quantity or amount
What is quantitative data?
100
An example of a descriptive approach to research
What is a survey? (or case study,cross-sectional, cohort, document or content analysis, trend, correlational, retrospective- basically if it is not experimental it can be classified as descriptive.
100
Host, agent and environmental factors
What are the elements of the epidemiological triangle?
200
Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance, Serving all functions
What is the four core public health functions
200
ADHP- Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner
What is the ADHA's proposed mid level provider?
200
The mean, median and mode
What are the measures of central tendency?
200
The rejection of a correct null hypothesis
What is a type I error
200
The study of the amount, distribution,determinant and control of disease and health conditions among a given population.
What is epidemiology
300
Prevention of disease before it occurs
What is primary prevention?
300
The United States Government's medical research organization/
What is the NIH (national institute of health)?
300
The average distance from the mean
What is standard deviation?
300
The variable that is manipulated by the researcher
What is the independent variable
300
+1 or - 1
What is a perfect correlation?
400
Public health services
What are interventions that help attain public health goals
400
Provides a system of health surveillance to prevent the outbreak of diseases and monitor any that do occur?
What is the CDC (Centers for disease control and prevention?
400
Variance, standard deviation and range
What are measures of dispersion?
400
ANOVA
What is a parametric test used to compare means for more than two groups?
500
The science and art of preventing and controlling oral diseases and promoting dental health through organized community efforts
What is dental public health?
500
Program that funds dental care to the indigent populations?
What is Medicaid?
500
Scales of measurement
What is Nominal ordinal interval and ratio?
500
The most commonly used nonparametric statistical test
What is the Chi Squared test?
500
Numeric expression of the number of all existing cases of a disease or health condition in a population measured at a given point or period of time.
What is Prevalance? (prevalence is a proportion)
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