Dental Public Health Overview
This role of the dental hygienist includes developing and coordinating dental public health programs.
What is an administrator?
This was the first state to graduate hygienists and also the first to have a dental hygiene association
What is Connecticut?
A comprehensive overview of the target population that includes specific descriptions is called
What is a target population profile or community profile?
Broad-based statements of desired long-term or short-term changes that is intended to alleviate identified needs.
What are the program goals?
This is the first step of the scientific method.
What is name the problem/question?
This research approach is used in an experimental study that lacks inherent control.
What is the quasi-experimental approach?
This type of prevention includes early disease control.
What is secondary prevention
How many states currently have a form of Direct Access?
What is 42?
Includes factors such as age, gender, SES, and ethnicity.
What is demographics?
These more specific and designed to guide program interventions
What are program objectives?
This conceptual model is based on technical competence and the dental hygienist takes little to no ownership of their actions of their care
What is the Occupational model?
This type of research studies a specific incidence of a disease in one person; for example, the milk maid who contracted cowpox but was vaccinated with small pox as a result.
What is a case study?
He is known as the father of epidemiology.
Who is Dr. John Snow?
Components form the first line of involvement, the _____ _____, or local, efforts to effect change and help guide policymaking decisions.
What are grass roots?
This area borders a major urbanized area.
What is suburban?
This model suggests that in order to display a readiness to take action to avoid a disease or act in a preventative manner, an individual must believe they are susceptible, the disease has serious consequences, the behavior is beneficial, and the behavior is important.
What is the health belief model?
Informed consent is related to which ethical principle?
What is autonomy?
This ethical principle involves the dental hygienist doing what he or she thinks is best for the patient according to his or her ability and judgment.
Ehat is paternalism?
IOM described the core functions of public health agencies to include
What are assessment, policy development, assurance, and serving all functions?
He discovered " Colorado brown stain" in the early 1900s.
Who is Dr. Frederick McKay?
Matthew 25 is an example of this.
What is a faith-based initiative/organization?
This behavior model includes the steps precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination.
What is the transtheorectical model?
"Patients who use Sensodyne will experience less sensitivity" is an example of what?
What is a research or positive hypothesis?
This unethical research conducted by the United States Public Health Service studied the natural history of untreated syphilis was initiated in the 1930s and continued until 1972.
What is the Tuskegee Airmen?
This core function includes the process by which society makes decisions about problems, chooses goals, and strategies to address the problems, and allocates resources to reach them.
What is policy development?
Principle agency designated to carry out provisions of the Older Americans Act of 1965
What is the Administration on Aging?
The ability to find transportation would be an example of this.
What is a barrier to care?
The three learning levels that also need to be considered when identifying objectives.
What are knowledge, apllication, and problem solving?
This entity is charged with reviewing ethical implications of every research study at institutions conducting medical research.
What is the institutional review board (IRB)?
Realted to the Dental Health Care Workforce, this is the number of dental care services actually consumed, not just desired, which can be important when speculating on the availble supply of personnel to meet the demand and/or need.
What is utilization?