Dental Hygiene National Board
Community Oral Health and Indices
Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
What is the fundamentals of community health practice? -
correct answer ✅survey and needs assessment, data analysis,
program planning, program operation, funding, and appraisal or
evaluation
What is the fundamentals of private dental practice? -
correct answer ✅Health history and examination (assessment),
diagnosis, treatment planning, treatment, payment, and evaluation
What is the difference between the community oral health and
private practice oral health? -
correct answer ✅community assesses a whole community and
private practice assess an individual's needs
What are the 4 government levels of community dental health? -
correct answer ✅International, Federal, State, and local
What is a prime example of International community dental health?
-
correct answer ✅WHO- World Health Organization
,Dental Hygiene National Board
Community Oral Health and Indices
Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
Who published Healthy People of 2010? -
correct answer ✅DHHS- Department of Health and Human
Services
What level of governement coordinates programs for
underdeveloped nations and gathers epidemiological data for
comparison across nations? -
correct answer ✅The international
What would be a good index to use for international populations
utilizing minimal equipment? -
correct answer ✅Community Periodontal Index of Treatment
Needs (CPITN)
What level of government acts on oral health problems of national
significance primarily within the jurisdiction of the Department of
Health and Human Services? -
correct answer ✅Federal
,Dental Hygiene National Board
Community Oral Health and Indices
Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
What are some example of federal agencies involved with
community oral health issues? -
correct answer ✅CDC-Center of Disease Control and Prevention,
Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), and National
Institute of Health NIH)
What level of government provides consultation services to local
health departments? -
correct answer ✅State
What level of government directly administers county and city
programs and initiates dental health legislative measures like
fluoridation? -
correct answer ✅Local
What is the study of Health and Disease in populations? -
correct answer ✅Epidemiology
How does Epidemiologic studies usually report finding? -
correct answer ✅in terms of prevalence or incidence of disease
, Dental Hygiene National Board
Community Oral Health and Indices
Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
What term refers to the estimated population of people who are
managing a disease at any given time? -
correct answer ✅Prevalence
What term refers to the annual diagnosis rate or the number of
new cases of a particular disease diagnosed each year? -
correct answer ✅Incidence
What are some uses of epidemiology? -
correct answer ✅collecting data to describe normal biological
processes, understanding the natural history of a disease process,
measuring the distribution of a disease in a given population,
identifying determinants of a disease, testing hypothesis for
prevention and control of a disease through studies, and planning
evaluating health care services
What term describes an unexpectedly large number of cases of
disease in a particular population at a particular place and time? -
correct answer ✅epidemic
Community Oral Health and Indices
Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
What is the fundamentals of community health practice? -
correct answer ✅survey and needs assessment, data analysis,
program planning, program operation, funding, and appraisal or
evaluation
What is the fundamentals of private dental practice? -
correct answer ✅Health history and examination (assessment),
diagnosis, treatment planning, treatment, payment, and evaluation
What is the difference between the community oral health and
private practice oral health? -
correct answer ✅community assesses a whole community and
private practice assess an individual's needs
What are the 4 government levels of community dental health? -
correct answer ✅International, Federal, State, and local
What is a prime example of International community dental health?
-
correct answer ✅WHO- World Health Organization
,Dental Hygiene National Board
Community Oral Health and Indices
Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
Who published Healthy People of 2010? -
correct answer ✅DHHS- Department of Health and Human
Services
What level of governement coordinates programs for
underdeveloped nations and gathers epidemiological data for
comparison across nations? -
correct answer ✅The international
What would be a good index to use for international populations
utilizing minimal equipment? -
correct answer ✅Community Periodontal Index of Treatment
Needs (CPITN)
What level of government acts on oral health problems of national
significance primarily within the jurisdiction of the Department of
Health and Human Services? -
correct answer ✅Federal
,Dental Hygiene National Board
Community Oral Health and Indices
Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
What are some example of federal agencies involved with
community oral health issues? -
correct answer ✅CDC-Center of Disease Control and Prevention,
Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), and National
Institute of Health NIH)
What level of government provides consultation services to local
health departments? -
correct answer ✅State
What level of government directly administers county and city
programs and initiates dental health legislative measures like
fluoridation? -
correct answer ✅Local
What is the study of Health and Disease in populations? -
correct answer ✅Epidemiology
How does Epidemiologic studies usually report finding? -
correct answer ✅in terms of prevalence or incidence of disease
, Dental Hygiene National Board
Community Oral Health and Indices
Exam Questions & Answers (Grade
A+)
What term refers to the estimated population of people who are
managing a disease at any given time? -
correct answer ✅Prevalence
What term refers to the annual diagnosis rate or the number of
new cases of a particular disease diagnosed each year? -
correct answer ✅Incidence
What are some uses of epidemiology? -
correct answer ✅collecting data to describe normal biological
processes, understanding the natural history of a disease process,
measuring the distribution of a disease in a given population,
identifying determinants of a disease, testing hypothesis for
prevention and control of a disease through studies, and planning
evaluating health care services
What term describes an unexpectedly large number of cases of
disease in a particular population at a particular place and time? -
correct answer ✅epidemic
