DH 224 Public Health Midterm Review
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What is primary prevention? - CORRECT ANSWER -The employment of strategies and agents to
forestall the onset of disease, reverse its progress, or arrest its process before treatment becomes necessary
What are examples of primary prevention in dentistry? - CORRECT ANSWER -Flouride, sealants,
prophys, oral evaluation
What is secondary prevention? - CORRECT ANSWER -Employs routine treatment methods to
terminate the disease process and/or restore tissues to as nearly normal as possible (restorative care)
What are examples of secondary prevention in dentistry? - CORRECT ANSWER -Fillings, endo,
perio debridement,
What is Tertiary prevention? - CORRECT ANSWER -Employs strategies to replace lost tissues
through rehabilitation
What are examples of tertiary prevention in dentistry? - CORRECT ANSWER -(Crowns, bridge,)
prosthetics, implants
What is Institution of Medicine (IOM)? - CORRECT ANSWER -What we, as a society, do
collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy
What are the 4 Core functions? - CORRECT ANSWER -Assessment, Policy development,
Assurance, Serving all functions.
Define Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER -involves monitoring the health of communities and
populations to identify health problems and priorities. (involves monitoring the health of communities
and populations to identify health problems and priorities)
, Define Policy development - CORRECT ANSWER -the process by which society makes decisions
about problems, chooses goals and strategies to address the problems, and allocates resources to reach
them.
Define Assurance - CORRECT ANSWER -involves making certain that all populations have access
to appropriate and cost-effective services to reach agreed-on public health goals (include health
promotion and disease-prevention services.)
Define Serving all functions - CORRECT ANSWER -The research for new insights and innovative
solutions to health problems
What is Public health goals? - CORRECT ANSWER -goals that guide all public health activities.
They dictate the services needed to ensure the promotion of health and prevention of disease and injury.
(ex
What is an example of Public health goal? - CORRECT ANSWER -the distribution of mouth
guards to student-athletes. (the distribution of mouth guards to student athletes
What is Public Health services? - CORRECT ANSWER -interventions that help attain public health
goals.
What is an example of Public health service? - CORRECT ANSWER -affordable health care
What does ADPIE stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER -Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Documentation?
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What is primary prevention? - CORRECT ANSWER -The employment of strategies and agents to
forestall the onset of disease, reverse its progress, or arrest its process before treatment becomes necessary
What are examples of primary prevention in dentistry? - CORRECT ANSWER -Flouride, sealants,
prophys, oral evaluation
What is secondary prevention? - CORRECT ANSWER -Employs routine treatment methods to
terminate the disease process and/or restore tissues to as nearly normal as possible (restorative care)
What are examples of secondary prevention in dentistry? - CORRECT ANSWER -Fillings, endo,
perio debridement,
What is Tertiary prevention? - CORRECT ANSWER -Employs strategies to replace lost tissues
through rehabilitation
What are examples of tertiary prevention in dentistry? - CORRECT ANSWER -(Crowns, bridge,)
prosthetics, implants
What is Institution of Medicine (IOM)? - CORRECT ANSWER -What we, as a society, do
collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy
What are the 4 Core functions? - CORRECT ANSWER -Assessment, Policy development,
Assurance, Serving all functions.
Define Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER -involves monitoring the health of communities and
populations to identify health problems and priorities. (involves monitoring the health of communities
and populations to identify health problems and priorities)
, Define Policy development - CORRECT ANSWER -the process by which society makes decisions
about problems, chooses goals and strategies to address the problems, and allocates resources to reach
them.
Define Assurance - CORRECT ANSWER -involves making certain that all populations have access
to appropriate and cost-effective services to reach agreed-on public health goals (include health
promotion and disease-prevention services.)
Define Serving all functions - CORRECT ANSWER -The research for new insights and innovative
solutions to health problems
What is Public health goals? - CORRECT ANSWER -goals that guide all public health activities.
They dictate the services needed to ensure the promotion of health and prevention of disease and injury.
(ex
What is an example of Public health goal? - CORRECT ANSWER -the distribution of mouth
guards to student-athletes. (the distribution of mouth guards to student athletes
What is Public Health services? - CORRECT ANSWER -interventions that help attain public health
goals.
What is an example of Public health service? - CORRECT ANSWER -affordable health care
What does ADPIE stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER -Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Documentation?
