UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Dental caries: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅is transmissible./ can be prevented.
School-based pit and fissure sealant programs reduce dental caries as much as __%. -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅60
Evidenced-based practices means: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅those that have been
scientifically proven to be effective.
Which of the following is the federal government's principal agency for protecting the health
of all Americans? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS)
Approximately __% of the states have full-time dental directors who provide leadership and
guidance in the planning, funding, and implementation of oral health promotion programs for
the residents of the states they serve. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅66
Many individual county and city health departments have federally funded clinics that offer
services on a sliding scale fee schedule and accept clients who receive public assistance
through: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Medicaid.
The Essential Public Health Services for Oral Health: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅describe
the roles of state oral health programs./ have been used in the development and evaluation of
public health activities at the state level. (a and c)
An oral health coalition is: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a cooperative effort on the part of
many individuals and organizations to build systems and develop programs that improve
community health.
, The community is viewed as the patient in public health, and ____________ can be
compared with the evaluation of the patient's treatment. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅evaluation
Implementation: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅includes the process of putting the plan into
action and monitoring the plan's activities, personnel, equipment, resources, and supplies.
Which of the following is true of formative evaluation? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅It is an
examination of the processes or activities of a program as they are taking place.
If a community's perception of needs is adhered to exclusively, actual clinical health
problems may go untreated because: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅people are not
knowledgeable about many areas of health care.
Developing goals and objectives is a part of the _________ process during the development
of an oral health program in the community. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅planning
Which of the following is the key to a measurable objective? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅The performance verb
Which area of program planning describes how the objectives will be accomplished? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Program activities
The implementation phase of program planning should answer ________, which in this case
are the activities required to achieve the objective. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅what
Using a smaller population for a community oral health program with the intent to expand
later on is called: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅pilot testing.
Which of the following is the first step in evaluation of a community oral health program? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Review the program goals