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Certified Health Education SpecialistExam Questions and Answers
Area of Responsibility I: Assess Needs, Assets and Capacity for Health Education -
Answers -The Responsibility of the Needs Assessment
Health Education - Answers -- ''Any planned combination of learning experiences
designed to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to health in
individuals, groups, and communities''
Health Promotion - Answers -- ''Any planned combination of educational, political,
regulatory, or organizational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to
the health of individuals, groups, and communities'' (Green & Kreuter, 2005, p. G-4).
Health Educator - Answers -...- ''A professionally prepared individual who serves in a
variety of roles and is specifically trained to use appropriate educational strategies and
methods to facilitate the development of policies, procedures, interventions, and
systems conducive to the health of individuals, groups, and communities'' (Joint
Committee, 2001, p. 100).
Health Education Specialist - Answers -...• ''An individual who has met, at a minimum,
baccalaureate-level required health education academic preparation qualifications, who
serves in a variety of settings, and is able to use appropriate educational strategies and
methods to facilitate the development of policies, procedures, interventions, and
systems conducive to the health of individuals, groups, and communities'' (Joint
Committee, 2012).
Primary Prevention - Answers -Preventive measures that forestall the onset of illness or
injury during the prepathogenesis period.
Secondary Prevention - Answers -Preventive measures that lead to early diagnosis and
prompt treatment of disease, illness or injury
Tertiary Prevention - Answers -... Preventive measures aimed at rehabilitation following
significant pathogenesis.
Primary Data - Answers -Data gathered by the Health Education Specialist directly from
or about the population of interest.
Secondary Data - Answers -Data gathered by others that may or may not be directly
collected from the individual or population of being assessed.
,Health Behavior - Answers -Behavior that impacts a person's health.
Needs Assessment - Answers -A process by which Health Education Specialist gather
information regarding health needs and desires of a data population. Plan for the
process , assess resources, locate existing data, collect data , using research methods
to guide data collection.
Steps of the Need Assessment - Answers -1. Determine the scope
2. Gather the Data
3. Analyze the data
4. Identify risk factors
5. Prioritize the need
6. Validate the need
Rapid Model - Answers -The framework for when money is limited.
Asset model - Answers -Strengths of community organization or population; using
existing resources to improve health.
Public Health Model - Answers -Quantify Epidemiological Data
Epidemiological Model - Answers -Epidemiological Data
Social Model - Answers -The influence of Social or political Issues on health.
Stakeholders - Answers -These people may be involved in program operations such as
program manager, program staff, partners, funding agencies, coalition members of
those served or affected by the program / project including patients , clients , advocacy
groups and community members.
Epidemiology - Answers -The study of the distribution and determinants of health
related states and the application of this study to control health problems.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) - Answers -Group of individuals with the authority to
grant or deny permission to conduct evaluation or research. It serves to safeguard the
rights, privacy , health and well being of those involved in research
Behavior (lifestyle) factors - Answers -Behaviors or actions of individuals, groups, or
communities. Indicators may include compliance , consumption and utilization patterns,
coping , preventive actions
Environmental factors - Answers -Determinants outside the individual that can be
modified to support behavior , health , quality of life . Economic factors , physical factors
, public services , access to, affordability of, equity in health services.
, Individual factors - Answers -Educational , social and cultural characteristics of the
individuals. Person's knowledge , attitudes, beliefs and perceptions, related to health
culture, religious and spiritual beliefs and skill set.
Informed consent - Answers -Disclosure of information to prospective subjects about the
research (program) their comprehension of the information and their voluntary
agreement , free of coercion and undue influence to research.
Predisposing Factors - Answers -Any characteristic of a person or population that
motivates a behavior prior to occurrence of behavior [ Individual knowledge and
affective traits].
Enabling Factors - Answers -Any characteristics of the environment that facilitates
action and skill of resource required to attain a specific behavior [ Factors that make
possible a change in behavior]
Reinforcing Factors - Answers -Any reward or punishment following or anticipated as a
consequence of a behavior serving to strengthen the motivation for the behavior after it
occurs.
Primary Data Sources - Answers -Written Questionnaires, Nominal Group Process,
Delphi Technique , Community Forum , Walkthrough tour, Observation, Photovoice,
Windshield tour, Interviews
Secondary Data Sources - Answers -Literature, Peer- reviewed journals, CDC, US
Department of Health and Human Services, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Health Resource Service Administration, National Center for Health Statistics BRFSS (
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System)
Commmunity Form - Answers -A process that brings people from the priority population
to discuss problems and needs.
Delphi Technique - Answers -A group process that generates a consensus through
serious of questionnaires.
Focus groups - Answers -An explanatory process that is used for generating
hypotheses , uncovering attitudes and opinions , and acquiring and testing new ideas
Nominal group process - Answers -A highly structured process in which a few
knowledgeable representatives [5 to7] are asked to qualify and quantify specific needs.
Health Assessments - Answers -They include instruments known as health risk
appraisals , health status assessments and various lifestyle specific assessments and
wellness and habit inventories.
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