In determining the caries rate for older adults, an epidemiologist usually uses the DMFT index, because it can be difficult to ascertain why teeth are missing.
A. Both the statement and the reason are correct and related.
B. Both the statement and the reason are correct but not related.
C. The statement is correct, but the reason is not.
D. The statement is not correct, but the reason is accurate.
E. Neither the statement nor the reason is correct.
The following are purposes of fluoride varnish, except;
A. promote mineralization of the tooth
B. reserve the process of cavity formation
C. retard cavity formation
D. decrease pH level
E. None of the above
Water irrigation devices in oral health regimens are useful in:
A. eliminating plaque
B. reducing periodontal pockets
C. diluting bacterial products
D. eliminating gingival inflammation
A timed series of service activities requiring physical, human and financial resources to achieve health policy objectives;
A. Civic action
B. Dental mission
C. outreach program
D. health program
E. public program
Which of the following describes the chain of superiors from the highest to the lower ranks?
A. Centralization
B. Span of control
C. scalar principle
D. administration
E. autonomy
Which of the following describes the term: It is today’s design for tomorrow’s action?
A. Planning
B. coordination
C. objective
D. strategy
E. action
The maximum production with the least coast with available resources;
A. Principle of allocations
B. Principle of management
C. principle of administration
D. principle of efficiency
E. both A & D
In conducting health education, it involves 2 or more teachers working cooperatively with certain group of students on a subject matter.
A. Developmental method
B. Team teaching method
C. discussion method
D. lecture method
E. both A & C
Freedom of control from others in matters affecting the quality of work is called:
A. Autonomy
B. esprit de corps
C. authority
D. discipline
E. projection
Nutritional disposal, food establishments, transportation, community education and housing are the factors under:
A. health related socio-economic factors
B. health status
C. population analysis
D. health resource analysis
E. none of the above
Measures taken before the disease occurs to reduce susceptibility:
A. tertiary prevention
B. secondary prevention
C. primary prevention
D. All of the above
Methods of imposing people’s values & judgment of what is important on the raw data;
A. limited resources
B. allocation
C. priority determination
D. both A & C
They are involved in the treatment and care of a patient when extensive disease is involved;
A. para-dental professional
B. dental assistant
C. dental hygienists
D. dental auxiliaries
E. All of the above
The Magna Carta of Public Health Worker;
A. RA 4419
B. RA 7305
C. RA 7530
D. RA 572
“In union there is strength” is the principle of:
A. autonomy
B. organization
C. esprit de corps
D. dental health
E. centralization
This model was developed with the specific intention of addressing noncompliance issues in behavior that results in negative health consequence.
A. Self-care motivational model
B. Contemporary community health model
C. behavioral learning model
D. Fayol’s model
Optimal level of fluoride in drinking water
A. 7-12ppm
B. 0.7-1.2ppm
C. 0.07-0.12ppm
D. 0.7-12ppm
It is the laying down of foundation of the organization by bringing together several leaders to have a better understanding of the community.
A. Mobilization
B. Training
C. core grouping
D. area selection
E. setting up an organization
The following are the physical characteristics of a community, except:
A. size
B. location
C. gender
D. occupational groupings
The S for the supportive factor of primary health care program refers to:
A. success of primary health care
B. sanitation of community
C. strengthening intersectoral collaboration
D. safe water supply
It is the adjustment of the fluoride content of a community’s water supply to an optimal level for the prevention of dental caries.
A. fluoride supplements
B. school water fluoridation
C. fluoride mouthrinse program
D. None of the above
It is a set of educational economic and environmental incentives to support behavioral changes that lead to a better level of health.
A. health promotion
B. public health
C. preventive dentistry
Refers to the measures taken to diagnose a disease that is already present
B. pathogenesis
C. secondary prevention
D. prepathogenesis
E. primary prevention
Our activities that are aimed at the early diagnosis and prompt treatment of disease in order to prevent sequelae.
Detained analysis of the working of the organization:
A. standing order
B. records
C. organizational chart
D. budgeting
E. procedure manual
It is a scientific discipline concerned with the application of statistical method of problems in biology and medicine:
A. public health
B. biostatistics
C. statistics
D. sampling
It is concerned in making estimates, predictions, generalizations, conclusions about a population based on information from a sample.
A. descriptive statistics
B. inscriptive statistics
C. inferential statistics
D. differential statistics
It is the study of the distribution and frequency of disease and injury in human populations and those factors making groups susceptible to disease and injury:
A. epidemiology
B. dental epidemiology
C. descriptive epidemiology
D. experimental epidemiology
It is most often used in studies to determine the etiology of a disease:
A. experimental epidemiology
B. analytical epidemiology
D. epidemiology
It is commonly used in the area of occupational health hazards:
A. retrospective follow-up studies
B. case control study
C. prospective cohort study
It measures the acid forming ability of microorganisms present in saliva or oral tissue:
A. dental caries activity
B. susceptibility test
C. pH test
D. both A & B only
E. A & C only
Proportion of a population affected with a disease at a given point in time:
A. incidence
B. rate
C. ratio
D. prevalence
The T for supportive factor of primary health care program:
A. training and help manpower development
B. treatment of common diseases and injuries
C. both A & B
The CPTIN index assessment is based on the evaluation of specified index teeth for:
A. gingival inflammation
B. depth of periodontal pockets
C. presence of supra/-subgingival calculus
D. both A & B
An index which use a dichotomous scoring system:
A. CPTIN
B. NIDR-GI
C. GI
D. PI
Fluorosis index was formulated by:
A. Greene and Vermillion
B. Dean
C. Gayford
D. Hussy
An index that measure the number of surfaces and teeth affected by dental caries:
A. RCI
B. GI
C. DMF
D. UTN
E. PI
An index that is designed to be repeated following patient oral hygiene education:
A. OHI-S
B. PHP-M
C. PI
D. GI
This index assess pockets, bleeding, plaque, retentive factors and periodontal treatment needs:
D. OHI-S
It is a continuing effort to imbibe community life by removing legal and social barriers that impose segregation to a group of people.
A. Entry into Community
B. Area Selection
C. Community Study
D. Integration
E. Both C & D
It is an objective mathematical description of a diagnosis based on carefully determined criteria under s specified conditions.
A. indices
B. prevalence
C. incidence
It is used to delineate disease patterns in community.
A. dental epidemiology
B. experimental epidemiology
All are under analytical epidemiology, except:
A. cohort study
B. establishes a relationship between a factor and a disease
C. prevalence
The effectivity date of the Magna Carta of Public Health workers:
A. April 26, 1992
B. March 26, 1992
C. April 17, 1992
D. March 17, 1992
E. Jan. 28, 1992
The following are the values to be adopted by a public health workers:
A. just
B. humane
C. service to mankind
D. Both A & B
Process of putting the plan into operation:
A. implementation
B. evaluation
C. monitoring
D. revision
E. planning