Agencies in Public Health
The agency that publishes Healthy People.
Who is the Department of Health and Human Services?
The three core functions of public health.
What are assessment, policy development, and assurance?
The verb "describe" is an example of this learning domain.
What is cognitive?
Refers to the estimated population of people who are managing the disease at any given time.
What is prevalence?
When the tail of the bell curve goes to the left.
What is negative skew? (left skew)
The agency that is lead by the surgeon general.
What is the U.S. Public Health Service?
The six components of public health practice. (think ADPIED for PH)
What is a needs assessment, data analysis, program planning, program operation, funding, and appraisal?
The outcome you intend to achieve.
What is a goal?
Larger than normal number of cases of diseases in a particular population.
What is an epidemic?
The type of statistics that generalizes the research findings to a larger population.
What is inferential statistics?
The agency that supports research to improve the quality of health care, reduce its costs, address patient safety and medical errors, and increase access to care.
What is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)?
The Leading Health Indicator (LHI) for oral health.
What is increasing dental attendance?
Type of evaluation that is conducted while the program is taking place.
What is formative evaluation?
The reason why the American Dental Hygienists' Association advocates for midlevel providers.
What is increasing access to care?
Type of study design that measures more than one independent variable.
What is a factorial design?
The agency that provides oversight for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)?
The Environmental Protection Agency's recommended level to defluoridate the water system.
What is 2.0 - 4.0 ppm?
Objectives that explain how emotional, physical, and social surroundings of a community will change after a program is implemented.
What are environmental objectives?
When you take a COVID test and it accurately tells you that you have COVID.
What is sensitivity?
The variable that CANNOT be controlled in a study.
What is an extraneous variable?
The agency responsible for improving access to health care for people who are uninsured, geographically isolated, or medically vulnerable.
What is the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)?
Water fluoridation is an example of this determinant of health.
What is policy development?
SMART+C meaning.
What is specific, measurable, achievable/attainable, realistic, time-based, and challenging?
What is an oral health educator?
The one measure of central tendency that is NOT affected by extremely high or low scores.
What is the median?