Chapter 4: Measuring Oral Health Status and Progress

An oral health surveillance system builds on overall health surveillance because:

• there is a link between oral health and systemic health.

• it is more cost effective to evaluate both at the same time

• community centers can easily create an area for oral health surveillance.

• oral health surveillance is easily accomplished with a questionnaire.

Healthy People 2030 has been designed to redirect attention from health care to which of the following?

• Health marketing

• Health costs

• Health determinants

• Health systems

In the U.S. public health community, and as defined by the Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Healthy People 2030, the term health disparity refers to a particular type of health difference among individuals or groups that is:

• attributable to an endemic disease or condition.

• caused by a genetic anomaly.

• unfair because it is caused by social or economic disadvantage.

• more prevalent in a particular race.

The United States has developed plans for the prevention of diseases and the promotion of health embodied in the initiative known as which of the following?

• The Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD) Basic Screening Survey

• The Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Data Resource Center (DRC)

• The National Oral Health Surveillance System (NOHSS)

• Healthy People

The Water Fluoridation Reporting System (WFRS) is which of the following?

• An interactive Internet-based monitoring and surveillance program

• A division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that monitors water-producing facilities for compliance with federal regulations

• A government agency where citizens can send their own water samples for evaluation of fluoride content

• A regional supplier serving the western region of the United States