| A | B |
|---|
| Assessment | Process of care that analyzes the programs target groups and resources |
| Assurance | Making sure all populations have access to quality health care |
| Malpractice | dental hygiene professional's negligence by act or omission when the care provided is not within the accepted standards of practice and negatively affects the patient's well-being |
| Primary prevention | employment of strategies and agents to forestall the onset of disease, reverse its progress or arrest its process before treatment becomes necessary |
| Public Health | dental hygiene role focusing on the public health science and practice |
| Public health goals | goals to guide all public health activites |
| Secondary prevention | routine treatment methods to terminate a disease process and/or restore tissues to as near normal as possible and can be termed restorative care |
| Public health services | services that help attain goals of public health |
| Tertiary prevention | strategy to replace lost tissues through rehabilitation |
| Socioeconomic status | individual's comparative social and economic standing in the community based on income and education |
