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Community 2of 3Final
2009 community final study guide Test 2 review
Question | Answer |
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Oral health promotion is aimed at | Dental caries, Disease of the supporting structures,Oral pharyngeal cancers, Craniofacial injuries |
Oral health promotion Goal is | empower people to attain equity in health and to reduce the incidence and prevalence of oral disease thru education. |
Prevention is what to oral health promotion | Essential |
Primary prevention | Intervention in disease before it occurs (Most essential) |
Secondary prevention | SRP |
Aspects of an effective Health promotion program | NOT dependent on compliance. Feasible |
Meso level of social factors | Institutional: family unit |
Population with the lowest use of dental care | Hispanics |
Highest use of dental care | Whites |
Aspects of an effective health promotion program | Not dependent on compliance cost effective,feasible |
These programs reduced dental caries by 60% | School based pit and fissure sealant programs |
Water flouridation | 50 years research, socially equitable, Only community health issue voted on by public, |
Healthy people target goal of flouridation | 75% of US |
What % of US uses H2O w/Flouride | 66% |
What country has the highest caries in children | Romania |
Define health education | Learning opportunities or educational interventions designed to help individuals or groups learn new health information and develop new health behaviors |
Interpersonal focus | "people helping people" small groups also known as Social Learning Theory |
Stages of change model | Precontemplation, contemplation, decision/determination, Action, Maintenance. |
Community organization theory | believe that they have control (empowerment) over their lives and the lives of their group |
Diffusion of innovations theory • Characteristics of an innovation | o Relative advantage o Compatibility o Complexity |
Organizational change theory | • Move through stages as they initiate and adopt change |
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs triangle level 2 of importance | Security and safety needs |
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs triangle levels of importance | 1 Physiological needs 2.Security and safety needs 3. Social needs 4.Esteem or ego needs 5. Self actualization |
Learning styles: What % of people remember what they see, hear, and do | 90% |
Instructional planning | • Analysis of the target audience and their unique learning needs |
Community profile done as part of the assessment phase | • Age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, socioeconomic status, and educational levels |
Educational lesson plan is what | • Well organized, written guide for presenting a specific block of instruction • Ensures that all info and materials are presented • Needs to be stable and standardized |
Endemic • | Constant disease in geographic region |
Epidemic • • • | High occurrence in geographic location |
Pandemic | Spread over entire country or the world |
Incidence | Rate of development of a disease in a group over time or the rate at which new disease cases occur in a population during a specified period |
Prevalence | • Proportion of people in a population that have disease |
Descriptive: | : study the amount and distribution of disease |
The most common descriptive study is | cross sectional/prevalence study |
3 core public health functions | Policy development, Assurance, Assessment |
Measurements Index should be | reliable |
reliable | consistently measure the same level of disease at different times by different examiners under various conditions |
Prevalence | • How many people within population have disease |
CPITN-CPI does what | measures periodontal status |
What are the three indicators considered when measuring periodontal status | o Gingival bleeding o Calculus o Perio pockets |
Ramfjord teeth/Ramfjord index teeth for a full mouth perio status assessment | 6 teeth: 3,9,12,19,25,28 |
Dean's fluorosis index | Score is based on the two most affected teeth and is recommended by WHO for community surveys |