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37 Cards in this Set
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What does our profession value?
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community responsibility, public health and the public good
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What are the components of health care?
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disease care, preventive care, health promotion, research and an interdisciplinary approach
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What criteria identify PH problems?
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a condition exists that is a wide-spread cause of morbidity and mortality, knowledge and technology exist to deal with the situation, and is not being applied in sufficient amounts to resolve
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What org. offers loan repayment programs to get dentists to locate in underserved communities?
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NHSC
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Oral and pharyngeal cancers have __ new cases, __ deaths per year and __ 5yr survival.
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30,000; 8,000; 52%
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What does POME stand for?
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problems, objectives, methods, and evaluation
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List criteria for an Objective in POME?
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restatement of a health problem in terms of a desired outcome, measurable, specific as to a time of accomplishment, and it should be clearly targeted (outcome, measure, time, target)
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Name 2 tools used for examination and diagnosis of a community?
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epidemiology and demography and survey
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Name 3 community dentistry skills needed by GPs?
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calibrated exam skills, understanding of public health programs, and a high level of people skills
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___ are the 1st step in developing public programs and policy that result in plans like the National OH Strategy.
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National documents and statistics
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The ___ identifies the most significant preventable threats to health and targets them and states the National Health Objective to be obtained to reduce the threats after __ years.
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National prevention agenda; 10 years
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What is the target for reducing the proportion of children who have dental caries experience in their primary or perm teeth?
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3-5 yo: 30% from 33%
6-9 yo: 49% from 54% 13-15 yo: 48% from 54% |
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What is the target for reducing the proportion of adults with untreated dental decay?
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Coronal caries: 15% from 17%
Root decay: 34% from 38% |
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Target for decreasing the proportion of adults who have had a perm tooth extracted because of dental caries or perio disease?
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69% from 76%
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Target for reducing the proportion of older adults who have had all their natural teeth extracted?
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22% from 24%
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Target for increasing the proportion of patients 2 yrs and up who report having a dental visit in the last year?
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49% from 45%
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Target for increasing the proportion of low income children who have received a dental prevention service in the past year?
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29% from 27%
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Target for increasing the proportion of children who have received 1 or more sealants on primary molars and perm molars?
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Age 3-5: 1.5% from 1.4%
6-9: 28% from 26% 13-15: 22% from 20% |
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What are the 2 developmental objective?
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increase the proportion of adults who receive prevention interventions in dental offices and increase the number of states that have a system fro recording cleft palate anomalies and system fro referring children with cleft palates to a rehab team
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What is the target for increasing the number of states and DC that have an oral and craniofacial health surveillance team?
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51 from 32
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Target for increasing the proportion of states with health agencies serving more than 250K people with a dental public health trained dental professional?
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26% from 23%
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What is the largest dental national data base in the world?
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Distribution of oral disease in the world
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How much more common is caries that bronchitis, hay fever, or asthma?
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5-12x
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Caries is greatest for what poor races? Non-poor?
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Poor Hispanic and whites; Non-poor hispanic and blacks
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Severe perio is greater in which races?
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hispanics and blacks
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Edentulism is highest in __.
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Poor whites but higher in poor in all categories except Hispanics; greater in whites and blacks
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Who has the highest rates of oral cancer?
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males esp. black males
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Tobacco use accounts for what % of oral cancers?
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90%
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What percent of males and females schoolchildren use spit tobacco? What race is highest?
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6.1% male and 0.1% female; Navajo
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What % of snuf users and chewing tobacco users have lesions?
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snuf: 34.9%
chewing tobacco: 19.6% |
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Commonness of dentures stomatitis?
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25% for upper and lower CD and also for RPDs; 33% for single denture
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List in order reasons for not coming to the dentist?
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no perceived problem, i have no teeth, cost of care, and fear
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What % of population wants care and can't get it?
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8.5%
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What % of dentists are PP?
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92%
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What part of the govt oversees dental public health?
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DHHS
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What is the world's premier medical/dental research organization?
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NIH
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What % of Americans have medical insurance? Dental? % of govt involvement in medical expenditures? Dental?
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85% medical; 56% dental; 43%; 6%
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