Magda De La Torre 1 Flashcards
(84 cards)
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Health
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Physical, social, and mental well-being, not merely the absence of disease
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Public Health
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The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society organizations, public and private communities and individuals
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What are the 3 core functions of public health?
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Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance
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What is assessment?
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Regular collection and dissemination of data on health status, community health needs, and epidemiologic issues
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What is policy development?
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Promotion of the use of the base of scientific knowledge in decision making policy matters affecting public health
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What is assurance?
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Provision of services necessary to achieve mutually agreed upon goals, either directly, through other entities or regulation
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What is “Dental Public Health”?
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A specialty of dentistry that focuses on the art and science of preventing and controlling dental disease and promoting dental health through organized community efforts
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What are the criteria for a public health problem?
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- ) Condition or situation that is a widespread actual or potential cause of morbidity or mortality
- ) Perception on the part of the public, government, or public health authorities that the condition is a public health problem
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What is public perception?
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Influential in the allocation of resources to solve a problem
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What is governmental perception?
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Insurance immediate action and can impact program planning and operation
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What is surveillance?
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Ongoing, systematic collection, analysis interpretation of data utilized for planning, implementation or evaluation of a public health practice
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What are the 9 purposes of surveillance?
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- Guide immediate action of public health importance
- Measure the burden of disease, populations at risk, or emerging health concerns
- Monitor trends in disease burden
- Guide planning, implementation and evaluation of programs
- Develop public policy
- Detect changes in health practice and evaluate the effects of these changes
- Prioritize the allocation of health resources
- Describe a clinical course of disease
- Provide a basis for epidemiological research
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What do these acronyms stand for?
- CDC
- NOHSS
- BRFSS
- YRBS
- PRAMS
- WFRS
- NHANES
- BSS
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- Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Oral Health Surveillance System
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
- Water Fluoridation Reporting System
- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
- Basic Screening Survey: Direct Examination
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What are factors that influence population trends?
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Age
Geographic Distribution
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The population in the US is getting _____.
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older
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- _________ in life expectancy 2. ______ in birth rate.
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- Increase
2. Decrease
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Population is moving from the 1_____/______ to the 2. _____/_____
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- North/Northeast
2. South/Southwest
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Migration from “ 1._____ to 2. ____”
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Rustbelt to Sunbelt
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The majority of the US population is between which ages?
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18-44
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According to 2010 what is the total US population?
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308.7 million
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___________ is increasing in the US population.
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Diversity
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_________ : Are the largest minority group in US
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Hispanics
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2/3 of US Hispanic population is of _______-American descent.
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Mexican
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Largest proportion of Hispanics live in __________ US.
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Southwest
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_____% of people living in Texas are minorities and most of those are Hispanic.
50.2%
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____-______ _______: Population in the US has doubled over the past 10 years and the increase is expected to continue
Asian-Pacific Islanders
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____% of Americans* (approximately 45.3 million Americans) live in poverty (up from 11.3% in 2000)
14.5%
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Poverty is more common among 1. ______ groups and among 2. _______.
1. minority
| 2. children
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Of the children living in poverty, 1.___ % are African-Americans and 2. ___ are Hispanic children.
1. 39%
| 2. 33%
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The percentage of children living in poverty is now ___% (previously 20.7% in 2011)
21.8%
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Complex grouping factors involving the measure of social and economic variables is referred to as __________ _________ __ ________.
Social Determinants of Health
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How is (SES) measured?
Measured via poverty status and educational level
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What are a few variables of SES?
Education
Income
Wealth
Social Class
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SES may be confounded (confused) with what?
Race
Ethnicity
Gender effects
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What is FPL (Federal Poverty Level) considered to be an income of?
at/below 22,000 for a family of four persons
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The higher the SES, the greater use of _______ services
dental
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Patients of lower SES are:
1. Less _____ to have ______ insurance
2. Less able to _______ dental care
3. Have ______ dentist in their local area
4. _______ barriers to receiving dental care
1. likely; dental
2. afford
3. fewer
4. Greater
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The percentage of population with the greatest dental visits the past year seems to be the highest in which population?
Children, especially in 2015
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What percent and population who need but did not obtain select health care services during the previous 12 months due to cost was the highest
9.5%; dental
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How many Americans are living in areas with a dentist shortage?
47.5 million
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___% of Americans have dental insurance while over 80% of the US population has some sort of US coverage.
46%
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The US population is becoming more 1. ______ and 2. _______
1. Diverse
| 2. Multicultural
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_______ is a major resource for social, economic & personal development & an important dimension of quality of life
Health
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1. _______, economic, 2. _______, environmental, 3 ________ & biological factors can all favor health or be harmful to health
1. Political
2. Social
3. Behaviorial
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What are the prerequisites for health fundanmental conditions & resources for health? (9)
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Peace
Shelter
Education
Food
Income
A Stable Ecosystem
Sustainable Resources
Social Justice
Equity
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What are determinants of health?
Factors that interact to create circumstances and produce specific health conditions
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What are the two categories of determinants of health?
Inherited Determinants
| Acquired Determinants
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What are inherited determinants?
factors that are inborn or genetically determined
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What are acquired determinants?
factors that influence health and are obtained after birth and throughout life (e.g. infections, trauma, cultural characteristics & spiritual value)
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What are expanded vision of factors that affect health through life span?
General socioeconomic, cultural & environmental conditions
Living & working conditions
Social & community influences
Individual lifestyle factors
Age, gender, and genetic factors
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What is healthy people 2020?
A resource for promoting health and preventing disease throuighout the nation
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What is quality of life?
individuals perceptions of their position in life i nthe context of culture and value system where they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standard and concerns
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Quality of life refers to: ________
Subjective evaluations, which induces both positive and negative dimensions and is embedded in a cultural, social and environmental context
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Domains of health and quality of life are _________ and _________.
Complementary and overlapping
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What are the 6 broad domains of quality of life?
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Physical domain
Psychological domain
Level of independence
Social relationships
Environment
Personal beliefs
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Assessment methods and measures developed to evaluate health related quality of life among population groups:
Global Assessments
Healthy Days
Years of Healthy Life
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What are some individual behaviors affecting oral, dental & craniofacial health? (7)
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Diet and nutrition
Home care practices
Seeking dental care
Tobacco Use
Alcohol Use
Craniofacial Injury Control Practices
Habitual Grinding and Clenching
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What are two factors that influence Oral, Dental, & Craniofacial Health?
Access to Quality Health Care & Oral Health Care
Policies and Intervention
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What are the 5 A's ? (Access to Oral Services?)
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Availibility
Accessibility
Accomodation
Affordibility
Acceptability
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OHRQoL is related to HRQoL
True
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OHRQoL
Multidimensional contruct that reflects people's comfort when eating, sleeping. and engaging in social interaction; their self esteem; and their satisfaction with respect to their oral health
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What are four dimensions that oral health affects a person's quality of life?
- Functional dimensions
- Sensations of pain and discomfort
- Psychological factors
- Social well-being
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OHIP
Oral Health Impact Profile
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OHIP Domains (7)
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Functional Limitations
Physical pain
Psychologic Discomfort
Physical Disability
Psychologic Disability
Social Disability
Handicap
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What are the responses for the 5 point lickert scale?
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Very often
Fairly often
Occasionally
Hardly Never
Never
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What is a community?
A group of individuals organized into a unit, or manifesting some unifying trait or common interest
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What is a unit?
can be entire population of a town, geographic, region, a state, or a nation
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True or False
Unit may also be a selected subgroup of people for example:
Low income children living in a large city
or
Men urged to have oral cancer screenings
True
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Community Oral Health Programs target who?
vulnerable populations with limited access to services or resources to pay
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What are the 4 steps for prevention programs? (APIE)
Assess factors
Plan policy or program
Implement policy or program
Evaluate policy or program
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What are the different characteristics of communities?
- Physical makeup and geography
- Demographics and population trends
- Social & power structure
- Government & legal structure
- Mental & emotional patterns
- Racial, cultural, ethnic groups
- Social mores
- Religious & nutritional patterns
- Educational institutions & community organizations
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What are predisposing factors?
individuals knowledge, attitudes, behavior, beliefs & values that affect willingness to change
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What are enabling factors?
factors environment or community that facilitate or present obstacles to change
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Reinforcing factors
positive or negative effects of adopting the behavior (including social support) that influence continuing the behavior
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Social Marketing Approach to Increase Oral Cancer Examinations Among African-Americans was done by University of Florida's college of dentistry, what were their 3 objectives?
1. Explore factors underlying African Americans' perception of oral cancer & oral cancer examination
2. Develop culturally appropriate health messages based on findings
3. Conduct social marketing campaign to decrease racial disparities in oral cancer
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What is social marketing?
Application of commercial marketing technologies to influence voluntary behavior to improve societal welfare
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What are the four P's?
Product: health practive
Price: barriers & cost of products
Place: channels of communication
Promotion: message
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What is the "bottoms up process?"
determination of marketing mix begins with asking target audience for their thoughts about the product, price, place & promotion efforts necessary to sell a beneficial health behavior to the target audience.
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Three focus groups conducted with ________ _________ men in Jacksonville, FL.
African American
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What was the provided guiding framework for the three African American men focus groups in Jacksonville, FL?
Health Belief Model & SOcial Marketing Principles
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What was investigated by the three AA focus groups in Jacksonville Florida? (4)
- Perceived susceptibility to & perceived severity of an oral cancer diagnosis
- Perceived benefits & barriers related to the oral cancer examination
- Knowledge of oral cancer & prevention
- Health promotion variables: information sources & need for incentives
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What are some assessing factors in a community? (11)
- Family, economic & social conditions
- Socioeconomic status
- Family stress
- Parenting style
- Cultural factors
- Dietary factors
- Feeding and comforting practices
- Caries status
- Risk factors
- Access to dental and health care
- Knowledge and attitudes
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The CDC Coordinated School Health Model has __ interactive components.
8; Oral health should be incorporated into each component
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ASTDD
Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD)
