DENTAL HYGIENE NATIONAL BOARD FULLY
SOLVED TEST PAPER GRADED A+
◉ What is the study of Health and Disease in populations?
Answer: Epidemiology
◉ How does Epidemiologic studies usually report finding?
Answer: in terms of prevalence or incidence of disease
◉ What term refers to the estimated population of people who are
managing a disease at any given time?
Answer: Prevalence
◉ What term refers to the annual diagnosis rate or the number of
new cases of a particular disease diagnosed each year?
Answer: Incidence
◉ What are some uses of epidemiology?
Answer: collecting data to describe normal biological processes,
understanding the natural history of a disease process, measuring
the distribution of a disease in a given population, identifying
determinants of a disease, testing hypothesis for prevention and
,control of a disease through studies, and planning evaluating health
care services
◉ What term describes an unexpectedly large number of cases of
disease in a particular population at a particular place and time?
Answer: epidemic
◉ What is an example of an epidemic?
Answer: meningitis outbreak among senior high school students
during fall quarter 2010
◉ What term describes a disease that occurs regularly in a
population as a matter of course?
Answer: Endemic
◉ What is an example of an endemic?
Answer: hay fever during spring
◉ What is the term that describes an outbreak of disease over a
wide geographical area; often worldwide?
Answer: Pandemic
◉ What is an example of a pandemic?
, Answer: Worldwide swine flu scare
◉ What study determines who is getting the disease and where and
when the disease is occurring?
Answer: Descriptive Studies
◉ What study test the hypothesis to establish a cause?
Answer: Experimental studies
◉ What is a null hypothesis?
Answer: referred to at "HO" is a hypothesis which is a researcher
tries to disprove or nullify
◉ What is a alternative hypothesis?
Answer: sometimes denotes as "H1", is an alternate way to explain
the phenomenon
◉ What is an example of null hypothesis?
Answer: Daily flossing does not lower interproximal caries rates
◉ What is an example of an alternative hypothesis?
Answer: Daily flossing decreases inter proximal caries rate
SOLVED TEST PAPER GRADED A+
◉ What is the study of Health and Disease in populations?
Answer: Epidemiology
◉ How does Epidemiologic studies usually report finding?
Answer: in terms of prevalence or incidence of disease
◉ What term refers to the estimated population of people who are
managing a disease at any given time?
Answer: Prevalence
◉ What term refers to the annual diagnosis rate or the number of
new cases of a particular disease diagnosed each year?
Answer: Incidence
◉ What are some uses of epidemiology?
Answer: collecting data to describe normal biological processes,
understanding the natural history of a disease process, measuring
the distribution of a disease in a given population, identifying
determinants of a disease, testing hypothesis for prevention and
,control of a disease through studies, and planning evaluating health
care services
◉ What term describes an unexpectedly large number of cases of
disease in a particular population at a particular place and time?
Answer: epidemic
◉ What is an example of an epidemic?
Answer: meningitis outbreak among senior high school students
during fall quarter 2010
◉ What term describes a disease that occurs regularly in a
population as a matter of course?
Answer: Endemic
◉ What is an example of an endemic?
Answer: hay fever during spring
◉ What is the term that describes an outbreak of disease over a
wide geographical area; often worldwide?
Answer: Pandemic
◉ What is an example of a pandemic?
, Answer: Worldwide swine flu scare
◉ What study determines who is getting the disease and where and
when the disease is occurring?
Answer: Descriptive Studies
◉ What study test the hypothesis to establish a cause?
Answer: Experimental studies
◉ What is a null hypothesis?
Answer: referred to at "HO" is a hypothesis which is a researcher
tries to disprove or nullify
◉ What is a alternative hypothesis?
Answer: sometimes denotes as "H1", is an alternate way to explain
the phenomenon
◉ What is an example of null hypothesis?
Answer: Daily flossing does not lower interproximal caries rates
◉ What is an example of an alternative hypothesis?
Answer: Daily flossing decreases inter proximal caries rate
