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Chapter 3 Key Terms
Community Dental Health I
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assessment | A core public health function that includes the regular and systematic collection, assemblage, and analysis of data and communication regarding the oral health of the community. |
| Epidemiology | The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems. |
| Host Factors | Factors that affect a host's (a person's, an animal's, or a plant's) susceptibility and resistance to disease. |
| Agent Factors | Biologic or mechanical means of causing disease, illness, injury, or disability, including microbial, parasitic, viral, and bacterial pathogens or vectors; physical or mechanical irritants; chemicals; drugs; trauma; automobiles; and radiation. |
| Enviromental Factors | Physical, sociocultural, sociopolitical, and economic components that interact with host and agent. |
| Determinants of Health | Factors that interact to create circumstances and produce specific health conditions' can be classified as a physical (environmental), biologic, behavioral, social, cultural, and spiritual. |
| Mandala of Health | Hancock's model of health of the human ecosystem. |
| Planning Cycle | A model commonly used in public health practice that provides a basic flowchart of steps in the process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate. |
| Community Oral Health Assessment | A multifaceted process of identifying factors that affect the oral health |
| Community Profile | A comprehensive description of the community, including items such as population size, geographic boundaries, community type, and physical conditions. |
| Data Collection | The process of gathering the information that can be used by the community to make decisions and set priorities. |
| Quantitative Data | Information that is objective and measurable; can be expressed in a quantity or amount (such as the number of children with dental sealants or the rate of dental caries in young children). |
| Qualitative Data | Information that reflects the quality or nature of things that cannot be numerically measured or analyzed. |
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