Community Oral Health: Ch. 3 Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What changes affect the community health environment? -
correct answer ✅Social, demographic, political, economic, and
technologic changes
What is the overarching goal of public health practitioners? -
correct answer ✅To keep people healthy and live in healthy
communities
Public health practitioners perform a
broad array of duties focused on _____________ -
correct answer ✅entire populations
What disciplines are included in public health practice? -
correct answer ✅Oral health, nutrition, nursing, social work,
health promotion, laboratory science, environmental health,
administration, and epidemiology
What are the 8 core competencies? -
correct answer ✅Analytical/assessment, policy development,
communication, cultural skills, community dimensions, public
health science, financial planning, leadership
, Community Oral Health: Ch. 3 Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What was crafted to transcend boundaries of specific disciplines
and help unify public health profession? -
correct answer ✅Core competencies
What is the science and art of preventing and controlling dental
diseases and promoting dental health through community efforts? -
correct answer ✅Dental public health
What is the driving force of dental public health? -
correct answer ✅Healthy People
What organizations revised accreditation standards and
competencies that emphasize public health? -
correct answer ✅CODA and ADEA
T or F.
Current CODA accreditation standards for dental curriculum reflect
stronger emphasis on community. -
correct answer ✅T
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What changes affect the community health environment? -
correct answer ✅Social, demographic, political, economic, and
technologic changes
What is the overarching goal of public health practitioners? -
correct answer ✅To keep people healthy and live in healthy
communities
Public health practitioners perform a
broad array of duties focused on _____________ -
correct answer ✅entire populations
What disciplines are included in public health practice? -
correct answer ✅Oral health, nutrition, nursing, social work,
health promotion, laboratory science, environmental health,
administration, and epidemiology
What are the 8 core competencies? -
correct answer ✅Analytical/assessment, policy development,
communication, cultural skills, community dimensions, public
health science, financial planning, leadership
, Community Oral Health: Ch. 3 Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What was crafted to transcend boundaries of specific disciplines
and help unify public health profession? -
correct answer ✅Core competencies
What is the science and art of preventing and controlling dental
diseases and promoting dental health through community efforts? -
correct answer ✅Dental public health
What is the driving force of dental public health? -
correct answer ✅Healthy People
What organizations revised accreditation standards and
competencies that emphasize public health? -
correct answer ✅CODA and ADEA
T or F.
Current CODA accreditation standards for dental curriculum reflect
stronger emphasis on community. -
correct answer ✅T
