Assessment for Community Oral Health

A community oral health assessment is virtually useless unless which of the following occurs?

• It is published the same year as the assessment is performed.

• It is funded by the federal government.

• The information is used to develop and implement evidence-based oral health strategies.

• It is cited in journals and textbooks.

Biologic or mechanical means of causing disease, illness, injury, or disability is which of the following factors in the epidemiologic triangle?

• Environmental

• Host

• Agent

• Human

Congenitally missing teeth, cancer, and cleft lip are considered examples of which of the following determinants of health?

• Environmental

• Biologic and genetic

• Access to care

• Individual behavior

The assessment process should be which of the following?

• Evaluated throughout the health assessment process

• Evaluated only when the health assessment process is complete

• Evaluated only as a “look back” when time has proven the validity or lack thereof of the results

• Is not evaluated

The science and art of preventing and controlling dental diseases and promoting dental health through organized community efforts is the definition of which of the following?

• Dental public health

• Curriculum of dental hygiene

• Public health assessment

• Dental epidemiology

Changing perspectives of health in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries include all except which of the following?

• Changes in the professional ethos

• Migration of populations

• Teledentistry

• Shift in third-party reimbursement

The context of people’s lives influences their health. Individuals are likely to be able to control many of the determinants of health directly.

• Both statements are true.

• Both statements are false.

• The first statement is true; the second statement is false.

• The first statement is false; the second statement is true.

Quantitative data refer to which of the following?

• Information that is objective and measurable

• Information that cannot be numerically measured or analyzed

• Descriptions of traditions and the history of a community

• The amount of data collected