Community NBDHE – Community Health Section Study Guide and
Practice Questions
What is the fundamentals of community health practice? - ✔✔survey and needs assessment,
data analysis, program planning, program operation, funding, and appraisal or evaluation
What is the fundamentals of private dental practice? - ✔✔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? -
✔✔community assesses a whole community and private practice assess an individual's needs
What are the 4 government levels of community dental health? - ✔✔International, Federal,
State, and local
What is a prime example of International community dental health? - ✔✔WHO- World Health
Organization
Who published Healthy People of 2010? - ✔✔DHHS- Department of Health and Human
Services
What level of governement coordinates programs for underdeveloped nations and gathers
epidemiological data for comparison across nations? - ✔✔The international
What would be a good index to use for international populations utilizing minimal equipment? -
✔✔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? - ✔✔Federal
,What are some example of federal agencies involved with community oral health issues? -
✔✔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? -
✔✔State
What level of government directly administers county and city programs and initiates dental
health legislative measures like fluoridation? - ✔✔Local
What is the study of Health and Disease in populations? - ✔✔Epidemiology
How does Epidemiologic studies usually report finding? - ✔✔in terms of prevalence or
incidence of disease
What term refers to the estimated population of people who are managing a disease at any
given time? - ✔✔Prevalence
What term refers to the annual diagnosis rate or the number of new cases of a particular
disease diagnosed each year? - ✔✔Incidence
What are some uses of epidemiology? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔epidemic
, What is an example of an epidemic? - ✔✔meningitis outbreak among senior high school
students during fall quarter 2010
What term describes a disease that occurs regularly in a population as a matter of course? -
✔✔Endemic
What is an example of an endemic? - ✔✔hay fever during spring
What is the term that describes an outbreak of disease over a wide geographical area; often
worldwide? - ✔✔Pandemic
What is an example of a pandemic? - ✔✔Worldwide swine flu scare
What study determines who is getting the disease and where and when the disease is
occurring? - ✔✔Descriptive Studies
What study test the hypothesis to establish a cause? - ✔✔Experimental studies
What is a null hypothesis? - ✔✔referred to at "HO" is a hypothesis which is a researcher tries
to disprove or nullify
What is a alternative hypothesis? - ✔✔sometimes denotes as "H1", is an alternate way to
explain the phenomenon
What is an example of null hypothesis? - ✔✔Daily flossing does not lower interproximal caries
rates
Practice Questions
What is the fundamentals of community health practice? - ✔✔survey and needs assessment,
data analysis, program planning, program operation, funding, and appraisal or evaluation
What is the fundamentals of private dental practice? - ✔✔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? -
✔✔community assesses a whole community and private practice assess an individual's needs
What are the 4 government levels of community dental health? - ✔✔International, Federal,
State, and local
What is a prime example of International community dental health? - ✔✔WHO- World Health
Organization
Who published Healthy People of 2010? - ✔✔DHHS- Department of Health and Human
Services
What level of governement coordinates programs for underdeveloped nations and gathers
epidemiological data for comparison across nations? - ✔✔The international
What would be a good index to use for international populations utilizing minimal equipment? -
✔✔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? - ✔✔Federal
,What are some example of federal agencies involved with community oral health issues? -
✔✔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? -
✔✔State
What level of government directly administers county and city programs and initiates dental
health legislative measures like fluoridation? - ✔✔Local
What is the study of Health and Disease in populations? - ✔✔Epidemiology
How does Epidemiologic studies usually report finding? - ✔✔in terms of prevalence or
incidence of disease
What term refers to the estimated population of people who are managing a disease at any
given time? - ✔✔Prevalence
What term refers to the annual diagnosis rate or the number of new cases of a particular
disease diagnosed each year? - ✔✔Incidence
What are some uses of epidemiology? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔epidemic
, What is an example of an epidemic? - ✔✔meningitis outbreak among senior high school
students during fall quarter 2010
What term describes a disease that occurs regularly in a population as a matter of course? -
✔✔Endemic
What is an example of an endemic? - ✔✔hay fever during spring
What is the term that describes an outbreak of disease over a wide geographical area; often
worldwide? - ✔✔Pandemic
What is an example of a pandemic? - ✔✔Worldwide swine flu scare
What study determines who is getting the disease and where and when the disease is
occurring? - ✔✔Descriptive Studies
What study test the hypothesis to establish a cause? - ✔✔Experimental studies
What is a null hypothesis? - ✔✔referred to at "HO" is a hypothesis which is a researcher tries
to disprove or nullify
What is a alternative hypothesis? - ✔✔sometimes denotes as "H1", is an alternate way to
explain the phenomenon
What is an example of null hypothesis? - ✔✔Daily flossing does not lower interproximal caries
rates
