Deck 3: Assessment for Community Oral Health Program Planning

Question 1

You are contacted by a local preschool for children from low-income families to develop a comprehensive oral health program for the school. You begin by researching best practices for community oral health program planning and community oral health programs.

-What is the correct order of the following tasks that will be necessary to plan and carry out a community oral health program for this school?

A) Conduct a survey, identify performance indicators, set a budget, monitor the intervention, and collect outcomes data
B) Identify performance indicators, conduct a survey, monitor the intervention, set a budget, and collect outcomes data
C) Collect outcomes data, conduct a survey, identify performance indicators, monitor the intervention, and set a budget
D) Conduct a survey, identify performance indicators, monitor the intervention, set a budget, and collect outcomes data

Answer 1

Conduct a survey, identify performance indicators, set a budget, monitor the intervention, and collect outcomes data

Question 2

You are contacted by a local preschool for children from low-income families to develop a comprehensive oral health program for the school. You begin by researching best practices for community oral health program planning and community oral health programs.

-What is the correct order of the following steps necessary to conduct a community assessment of this population?

A) Bring together a group of interested individuals, clearly describe the community group, collect primary data, collect secondary data
B) Bring together a group of interested individuals, clearly describe the community group, collect secondary data, collect primary data
C) Clearly describe the community group, bring together a group of interested individuals, collect secondary data, collect primary data
D) Collect secondary data, collect primary data, clearly describe the community group, bring together a group of interested individuals

Answer 2

Bring together a group of interested individuals, clearly describe the community group, collect secondary data, collect primary data

Question 3

You are contacted by a local preschool for children from low-income families to develop a comprehensive oral health program for the school. You begin by researching best practices for community oral health program planning and community oral health programs.

-All of the following EXCEPT one are resources for information about the population's oral health status and about best practices related to assessment and to selecting and planning initiatives for this program. Which one is the EXCEPTION?

A) The statewide oral health coalition
B) The Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD)
C) The National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC)
D) The state dental board

Answer 3

The state dental board

Question 4

You are contacted by a local preschool for children from low-income families to develop a comprehensive oral health program for the school. You begin by researching best practices for community oral health program planning and community oral health programs.

-All of the following statements EXCEPT one describe the conceptual framework of determinants of health in relation to the oral health of the children in this school. Which one is the EXCEPTION?

A) The determinants of oral health include policies that support their oral health, their access to and quality of oral health services, social factors and physical conditions in their environment that affect their oral health, their individual personal actions that influence their oral health, and their basic biologic and organic makeup, including their inherited predispositions to specific oral diseases and conditions.
B) The boundaries among the specific categories of determinants of health are indistinct because they interact and influence one another continuously.
C) Determinants of health profoundly affect the oral health of individuals, families, communities, nations, and the world.
D) Individuals can be empowered to control the effects of determinants of health in their own personal lives, although individually they cannot control the communal effects.

Question 5

You are contacted by a local preschool for children from low-income families to develop a comprehensive oral health program for the school. You begin by researching best practices for community oral health program planning and community oral health programs.

-Assessment results indicate high rates of early childhood caries, untreated caries, oral pain, and inadequate oral hygiene practices among the children. Assessment of the parents indicates lack of understanding of the importance and value of oral hygiene, preventive practices, and treatment of dental caries; limited general knowledge about how to achieve and maintain oral health; and low oral health literacy. Most families have a family income below the federal poverty level, speak a language other than English in the home, have limited formal education, and have recently immigrated to the United States. Based on the theoretical framework of determinants of health, which of the following would be most likely to result in improved oral health outcomes for this population?

A) A supervised daily toothbrushing program for the children at school
B) A fluoride varnish program twice a year at the school
C) Oral health counseling at required monthly parent meetings combined with home visits
D) A combination of these and other programs

Question 6

Which of the following is listed as a task in the Seven Areas of Responsibility on the CHES and MCHES national examinations?

A)Administer and manage health education.
B)Conduct focus groups to assess dental health needs.
C)Manage dental health professionals.
D)Advocate for the management of health education.

Question 7

Which of the following is one of the eight domains of core competencies for public health professionals, as defined by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice?

A)Professionalism in the workplace
B)Financial planning and management skills
C)Following directions in public health roles
D)Nonverbal communication skills

Question 8

What can be defined as an "alliance of multiple groups, organizations, and individuals whose combined actions aim at accomplishing a specific common goal?"

A)A team
B)A collaboration
C)A coalition
D)An agency

Question 9

What can be defined as "the regular and systematic collection, assemblage, and analysis of data and communication regarding the health of the community?"

A)Assessment
B)Community research
C)Data collection
D)Surveillance

Question 10

Which of the following is one of the principal factors analyzed in epidemiology?

A)Unaffected population
B)Season
C)Range of spread
D)Determinants

Question 11

Which of the following is one of the prerequisites for health, as defined by the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion?

A)Drink
B)Food
C)Wealth
D)Unsustainable resources

Question 12

According to Healthy People 2020, health determinants are embedded in the broad range of personal, social, physical, economic, and ____________ factors that determine the health status of individuals and populations.

A)evolutionary
B)environmental
C)group
D)internal

Question 13

_________ determinants of health are primarily responsible for health inequities.

A)Individual
B)Biologic
C)Social
D)Societal

Question 14

What is the first step of the community health program planning process?

A)To develop a measurable process
B)To brainstorm outcome objectives
C)To implement health intervention
D)To conduct a community assessment

Question 15

According to the ASTDD Seven-Step Assessment Model, the last and final step in conducting an oral health assessment is to:

A)plan the needs assessment.
B)collect data.
C)evaluate the needs assessment.
D)organize and analyze data.