CHES NCHEC - Practice Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
In a priority population, the infant mortality rate and overall
death rate for mothers with less than a high school education
is almost twice as high as mothers with 13 or more years of
education. These are examples of:
a. health equity
b. health determinants
c. health capacity
d. health disparities - Correct Answer ✅d. health disparities
The health department administrator just returned Fromm a
meeting where someone used a focus group to gather data
and now has a great idea. The administrator tasks the health
education specialist with conducting a focus group of low-
income citizens from the south side of town to answer
questions about which heart disease intervention the
department should offer citywide. Knowing the limitations of
this strategy, the health education specialist is rightfully
concerned about:
a. the reliability of the findings
b. the generalizability of the findings
c. the validity of the findings
,CHES NCHEC - Practice Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
d. the accuracy of the findings - Correct Answer ✅b. the
generalizability of the findings
According to Graph 1, which of the following is true?
a. Deaths due to TBI have more than doubled from 2001 to
2010
b. Emergency department visits fro TBI have increased more
than 1.5 times from 2001-2010
c. Hospitalizations for TBI started to increase after 2005, and
then decreased from 2005-2010
d. The total number of people affected by TBI has been
steadily decreasing since 2007 - Correct Answer ✅b.
Emergency department visits fro TBI have increased more
than 1.5 times from 2001-2010
According to Graph 1, which of the following is true?
a. More people are choosing to avoid treatment and instead
are dying from their injuries
b. It appears that more people are seeking treatment and are
being hospitalized for TBI
,CHES NCHEC - Practice Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
c. Although the number of TBIs has increased, the number of
deaths due to TBIs has decreased
d. Surgical methods for TBI are improving, which is
decreasing the death rates for TBI - Correct Answer ✅c.
Although the number of TBIs has increased, the number of
deaths due to TBIs has decreased
Consumption, medication compliance, and self-care are
considered which type of factors re;acted to health?
a. Attitudes
b. Environmental
c. Behavioral
d. Genetic - Correct Answer ✅c. Behavioral
The health education specialist is working with a local
community to institute a smoke free environment in local
businesses, agencies, and restaurants throughout the entire
community. What type of health strategy would the health
education specialist implement in the community?
a. Position statement
b. Ordinance
, CHES NCHEC - Practice Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
c. Executive order
d. Regulation - Correct Answer ✅b. Ordinance
A hospital is expanding outreach services and facilities with a
new unit focused on prevention and the treatment of chronic
disease. The health education specialist is tasked with
gathering local data on these conditions. Which is the most
useful rate to use?
a. Incidence rate (rate of occurrence of new cases, conveys
information about risk of contracting the disease, how fast it
is spreading)
b. Prevalence rate (proportion of cases in the population at a
given time, indicates how widespread the disease is in a
population, how far it is spreading)
c. Attack rate
d. Natality rate - Correct Answer ✅b. Prevalence rate
To depict the number of infections among a cohort of 113
women, a health education specialist presented existing data
in the form of Graph 2. The graph reveals the number of new
cases each month of a diagnosed asymptomatic infection and
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