Certified Community Health Worker Practice Questions and Answers 100% Solved
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Community health
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Community Health
Certified Community Health Worker
Practice Questions and Answers 100%
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Examples of services provided by CHWs - outreach, home visits, health
education, client-centered counseling and case management.
What are the main goals of CHWs? - reduce persistent health
inequalities in the rates o...
What does the term community health worker refer to? - ✔✔The term
describes both community volunteers who work informally to improve their
community's health and those who are paid for providing their services.
What are the core CHW roles? - ✔✔1. Cultural mediation between
community and health and social services
2. Informal counseling and social support
3. Providing direct services and referrals
4. Providing culturally appropriate health education
5. Advocating for individual and community needs
6. Assuring people get the services they need
7. Building individual and community capacity
While the field of medicine focuses on the health of individual patients, the
field of public health is concerned with ______________ - ✔✔populations
Prevalence - ✔✔the percentage of the population with a health risk or
condition
Infant mortality - ✔✔the estimated number of children out of every 1000
born alive, who die before the age of 1.
Life expectancy - ✔✔the estimated number of years that people will live.
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