Dental Hygiene Community Health Programs
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Course Introduction
Dental Hygiene Community Health Programs explores the role of dental hygienists in promoting oral health within diverse populations and community settings. The course emphasizes principles of public health, needs assessment, program planning, implementation, and evaluation of community-based oral health initiatives. Students examine the social, cultural, and economic factors affecting oral health and learn to design educational campaigns, preventive services, and outreach efforts that address oral health disparities. Through case studies and project-based learning, students develop skills in collaboration, advocacy, and leadership essential for advancing oral health at the community level.
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Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist 4th Edition by Christine French Beatty
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Chapter 1: People's Health: An Introduction
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Q1) The "Be Part of the Change" campaign, established by the ADHA and the Oral Cancer Foundation, is an example of which of the following?
A) Increased access to care
B) Interprofessional collaboration
C) Private practice and public health programming
D) Private sector initiative
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following represents one of the characteristics of public health solutions?
A) A long implementation period demonstrates conscientious planning.
B) Potency should be maintained for a short time in the event that problems require retooling.
C) Socioeconomic status should limit distribution to those who can most easily carry the cost burden.
D) They should be effective immediately upon application.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Careers in Public Health for the Dental Hygienist
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Q1) The dental hygienist who starts a nonprofit to build a new clinic to serve marginalized populations is fulfilling which of the following career paths?
A) Advocate
B) Researcher
C) Entrepreneur
D) Educator
Answer: C
Q2) One of the guiding principles for creating access to oral health care through legislation and policy development is to encourage which of the following?
A) Restriction of funding for dental services
B) Increasing the scope of dental hygienists' duties
C) Compliance with repayment of educational loans
D) Elimination of dental benefits through existing public insurance programs
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Assessment for Community Oral Health
Program Planning
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Q1) Which of the following is the first step in analyzing and interpreting both primary and secondary data for a community oral health assessment?
A) Compare data with other data
B) Assess the significance of the data collected
C) Synthesize the information and summarize the findings
D) Provide direction for future actions to build on community assets
Answer: C
Q2) Epidemiology in public health has many uses EXCEPT which of the following?
A) Evaluate a community topical fluoride application program.
B) Dental fee increases by zip code.
C) Describe the use of chewing gum among American Indians.
D) Predict morbidity.
Answer: B
Q3) A research design that uses the review of past events is which of the following?
A) Prospective
B) Retrospective
C) Multifactorial
D) Surveillance
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Measuring Oral Health Status and Progress
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Q1) Which of the following have been stressed by several agencies and national organizations as important to the routine collection of data on oral health outcomes, risk factors, and intervention strategies?
A) Private dental offices
B) Dental and dental hygiene schools
C) Oral health surveillance systems
D) Community health facilities
Q2) Which of the following represents long-term goals of oral health surveillance systems? (Select all that apply.)
A) Continuous monitoring of oral health at the national, state, and community levels
B) An expansion of indicators in oral health surveillance systems
C) Use of webcams to monitor personal oral health in the community
D) Predicting shortages in the professional workforce
Q3) The Basic Screening Survey (BSS) is published by which of the following agencies?
A) National Oral Health Surveillance System (NOHSS)
B) Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD)
C) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
D) The Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Data Resource Center (DRC)
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Chapter 5: Population Health
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Q1) Which of the following is associated with early childhood caries?
A) Diet that is high in saturated fat
B) Putting a child to bed with formula or other sweetened drinks
C) Not eating enough leafy green or yellow vegetables
D) Child who is a finicky eater
Q2) Most oral cancers are which of the following?
A) Osteogenic sarcomas
B) Pleomorphic adenomas
C) Squamous cell carcinomas
D) Melanomas
Q3) Of the 50 largest U.S. cities, which of the following do not have fluoridated water?
A) San Jose, CA; Detroit, MI; Portland, ME
B) Portland, ME; Albuquerque, NM; Fresno, CA
C) Fresno, CA; Detroit, MI; Portland, ME
D) Wichita, KS; Tucson, AZ; San Jose, CA
Q4) Of the following, which has the lowest 5-year cancer survival rate?
A) Localized
B) Metastasized
C) Spread to regional lymph nodes
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Chapter 6: Oral Health Programs in the Community
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Q1) The overall mission of Head Start is to __________________.
A) teach parents to help their children learn
B) ensure that children eat a nutritious breakfast
C) prepare children for school
D) provide transportation for children if needed
Q2) From 1965 until the most recent Head Start Reauthorization in December 2007, eligibility for Head Start services was at or below what percentage of the federal poverty level (FPL)?
A) 40%
B) 60%
C) 80%
D) 100%
Q3) Which of the following federal initiatives that provide funding to states administers the Head Start program?
A) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
B) Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
C) Children's Health Insurance Plan Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA)
D) Medicaid (Title XIX)
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Chapter 7: Applied Research
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Q1) A Type I alpha error is which of the following?
A) When the researcher rejects the null hypothesis
B) When the researcher accepts the null hypothesis
Q2) A perfect positive correlation is shown by ______ and a perfect negative correlation is shown by ______.
A) 100; 0
B) +1.0; 0
C) +1.0; -1.0
D) alpha, a; zeta, x
Q3) Interrater reliability refers to which of the following?
A) The extent that two or more raters obtain the same result when using the same instrument to measure a concept
B) The same rater making the same assessment on two or more occasions
C) Gathering data that were intended to be collected
D) a and c
Q4) Continuous data use which of the following scales of measurement?
A) Interval and ordinal
B) Ordinal and ratio
C) Ratio and interval
D) a and c
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Chapter 8: Health Promotion and Health Communication
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Q1) Of the following, which method is appropriate for determining, prior to a launch, whether the messages are at the appropriate language and literacy level and culturally acceptable to the intended audience?
A) An audiovisual presentation to the staff
B) Review of the material with local linguistic experts
C) Testing through social media
D) Focus group
Q2) The most effective way to reach individuals to increase their knowledge or to change behavior is which of the following?
A) Send generic messages
B) Use targeted materials
C) Personalize messages
D) Tailor messages
Q3) Which of the following health promotion theories functions at the community level?
A) Stages of change theory
B) Organizational change: stage theory
C) Social learning theory
D) Health Belief Model.
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Chapter 9: Social Responsibility
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Q1) Social responsibility includes which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
A) A broad term meaning people and organizations are to behave ethically
B) A term applicable to corporate and government, but not to individuals
C) A government's responsibility to promote health and well-being to the public
D) A responsibility to impact the financial status of private practice
Q2) Accepting the obligation to tell the truth and expecting others to do the same is which of the following?
A) Veracity
B) Fairness
C) Confidentiality
D) Societal trust
Q3) Which of the following is achieved when every individual has the opportunity to attain full health potential?
A) Social responsibility
B) Full access to care
C) Health equity
D) Managed care
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Chapter 10: Cultural Competence
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Q1) According to the final recommendations on National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in health care, guidelines are which of the following?
A) Current federal requirements for all recipients of federal funds
B) Suggestions by the Office of Minority Health (OMH) for voluntary adoption by health care organizations
C) Activities recommended by OMH for adoption as mandates by federal, state, and national accrediting agencies
Q2) A lack of cultural interchange and adaptation could be called ___________, which is judging other cultures by your own standards consistent with your values, not theirs.
A) stereotyping
B) prejudice
C) ethnocentrism
D) cultural competency
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Chapter 11: Service-Learning: Preparing Dental Hygienists
for Collaborative Practice
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Q1) The evaluation of the service-learning project while it is ongoing or in-process is which of the following?
A) Formative
B) Summative
Q2) Implementation of the evaluation phase of the service-learning (SL) experience begins at/with:
A) orientation.
B) preparation.
C) the SL experience.
D) reflection.
Q3) The community oral health project can be a service-learning project if it contains service-learning components that will benefit which of the following?
A) Student
B) Population
C) Economy
D) Student and economy
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