NBDHE LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔steps for community health practice (6) - ✔✔1. survey and needs assessment
2. data analysis
3. program planning
4. program operation
5. funding
6. appraisal or evaluation
✔✔steps for private practice (6) - ✔✔1. assessment
2. diagnosis
3. planing
4. Implementation
5. payment
6. evaluation
✔✔international community dental health - ✔✔coordinates programs for
underdeveloped nations and compares data across nations (WHO)
✔✔federal community dental health - ✔✔acts on national oral health problems within
the Department of Health and Human services (Healthy People 2010)
✔✔state community dental health - ✔✔provides consultation services to local health
departments
✔✔local community dental health - ✔✔directly administers county and city programs
✔✔epidemiology - ✔✔study of health and disease in populations
✔✔quantitative data - ✔✔information that can be counted or expressed numerically
✔✔prevalence - ✔✔total number of cases in a given population during a specific period
of time
✔✔incidence - ✔✔number of new cases
✔✔epidemic - ✔✔A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.
✔✔endemic - ✔✔disease commonly found in a particular region or among a particular
people
✔✔pandemic - ✔✔widespread worldwide
, ✔✔experimental study - ✔✔tests hypotheses to establish cause
✔✔null hypothesis - ✔✔hypothesis a researcher tries to disprove
✔✔hypothesis - ✔✔suggested explanation
✔✔alternative hypothesis - ✔✔alternate way to explain the phenomenon
✔✔retrospective (case-controlled) study - ✔✔examines whether a past association
exists between exposure and condition
✔✔prospective study - ✔✔subjects are observed and data is collected over time to
determine is disease is developing
✔✔longitudinal study - ✔✔group is studied over an extended period of time
✔✔descriptive study - ✔✔designed to describe who is getting disease and where and
when
✔✔dependent variable - ✔✔The EFFECT of Cause and effect
✔✔independent variable - ✔✔The CAUSE of Cause and Effect
✔✔data matrix - ✔✔arranges data scores from lowest to highest
✔✔frequency of distribution - ✔✔Measures how often each score occurs
✔✔ungrouped scores - ✔✔Data is presented in ascending or descending order along
with the frequency of each score. (ex: hatch marks)
✔✔grouped scores - ✔✔Grouping variables into consecutive intervals
✔✔measures of central tendency - ✔✔numbers that are used to describe the center of
a set of data, the mean, median and mode
✔✔normal curve - ✔✔mean, median, and mode are all EQUAL
✔✔positive skew - ✔✔more scores fall in lower range
✔✔negative skew - ✔✔more scores fall in the higher range
✔✔intraexaminer reliability - ✔✔consistency by the same evaluator
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔steps for community health practice (6) - ✔✔1. survey and needs assessment
2. data analysis
3. program planning
4. program operation
5. funding
6. appraisal or evaluation
✔✔steps for private practice (6) - ✔✔1. assessment
2. diagnosis
3. planing
4. Implementation
5. payment
6. evaluation
✔✔international community dental health - ✔✔coordinates programs for
underdeveloped nations and compares data across nations (WHO)
✔✔federal community dental health - ✔✔acts on national oral health problems within
the Department of Health and Human services (Healthy People 2010)
✔✔state community dental health - ✔✔provides consultation services to local health
departments
✔✔local community dental health - ✔✔directly administers county and city programs
✔✔epidemiology - ✔✔study of health and disease in populations
✔✔quantitative data - ✔✔information that can be counted or expressed numerically
✔✔prevalence - ✔✔total number of cases in a given population during a specific period
of time
✔✔incidence - ✔✔number of new cases
✔✔epidemic - ✔✔A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.
✔✔endemic - ✔✔disease commonly found in a particular region or among a particular
people
✔✔pandemic - ✔✔widespread worldwide
, ✔✔experimental study - ✔✔tests hypotheses to establish cause
✔✔null hypothesis - ✔✔hypothesis a researcher tries to disprove
✔✔hypothesis - ✔✔suggested explanation
✔✔alternative hypothesis - ✔✔alternate way to explain the phenomenon
✔✔retrospective (case-controlled) study - ✔✔examines whether a past association
exists between exposure and condition
✔✔prospective study - ✔✔subjects are observed and data is collected over time to
determine is disease is developing
✔✔longitudinal study - ✔✔group is studied over an extended period of time
✔✔descriptive study - ✔✔designed to describe who is getting disease and where and
when
✔✔dependent variable - ✔✔The EFFECT of Cause and effect
✔✔independent variable - ✔✔The CAUSE of Cause and Effect
✔✔data matrix - ✔✔arranges data scores from lowest to highest
✔✔frequency of distribution - ✔✔Measures how often each score occurs
✔✔ungrouped scores - ✔✔Data is presented in ascending or descending order along
with the frequency of each score. (ex: hatch marks)
✔✔grouped scores - ✔✔Grouping variables into consecutive intervals
✔✔measures of central tendency - ✔✔numbers that are used to describe the center of
a set of data, the mean, median and mode
✔✔normal curve - ✔✔mean, median, and mode are all EQUAL
✔✔positive skew - ✔✔more scores fall in lower range
✔✔negative skew - ✔✔more scores fall in the higher range
✔✔intraexaminer reliability - ✔✔consistency by the same evaluator
