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| Program planning | process of developing a dental health program that includes the stages of assessment, diagnosis, implementation, and evaluation |
| Assessment | Process of care that analyzes the programs target group and resources |
| Assurance | making sure all populations have access to quality health care |
| Blueprint | skeletal framework developed before implementing a program |
| Clinical evaluation | study or appraisal supported by clinical data such as basic screenings and epidemiological examinations that utilizes dental indices |
| Community water fluoridation | addition of fluoride to community water supplies |
| Data analysis | application of statistical tests to data to organize, describe, summerize, and analyze them to answer a research question or test a hypothesis |
| Dental hygiene diagnosis | formal diagnosis of a populations current dental status |
| Dental index | standardized quantitative method for measuring, scoring, and analyzing oral conditions in individuals and groups |
| Implementation | part of the dental hygiene process of care that includes the actual operation of a program |
| Paradigm | outstanding clear or typical example or framework that explains or illistrates a concept or theory |
| Planning | part of the dental hygiene process of care that includes the development of a program |
| Policy development | the act of developing policies to solve health issues |
| Evaluation | part of the dental hygiene process that encompasses evaluation of a dental health program |
| Nonclinical evaluation | study or appraisal employing questionaires, individual or group interviews, direct observations, and survey rather than being based on, relating to, or conducted in a clinic |
| Surveillance | ongoing observation, persistent watching over, crutiny, constant monitoring, and assessment of changes in populations related to disease, conditions, injuries, disabilites, or death trends |
