CHES Exam (Information from NCHEC
Companion Guide 7th Ed)
According to which theory or model do people assess the threat of an emerging disease
by assessing their perceived susceptibility against the severity of the disease?
a. Diffusion of Innovations
b. Social Cognitive Theory
c. Health Belief Model
d. Social Marketing - Answers -c. Health Belief Model (Area of Responsibility III:
Implement Health Education/Promotion)
A health education specialist is considering how people might adopt a program in order
to understand how best to tailor specific messages. If the health education specialist
wants to get the first people to adopt the program using the Diffusion of Innovations,
which strategy might be best?
a. Show the audience how most people have been enjoying the program
b. Focus on how new and different the program is from what exists
c. Wait for the opinion leaders to adopt
d. Focus on how the program adheres to social norms - Answers -b. Focus on how new
and different the program is from what exists (Area of Responsibility III: Implement
Health Education/Promotion)
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 - Answers -d. health disparities (Area I: Assess Needs, Resources,
and Capacity for Health Education Promotion
Data storage is an example of which type of technology need?
a. Infrastructure
b. Program delivery
c. Collaboration technology
d. Knowledge - Answers -a. Infrastructure (Area V: Administer and Manage Health
Education/Promotion)
, Newsletters, community meetings, public service announcements, and social
networking sites are examples of:
a. social norms
b. communication campaigns
c. social media
d. communication channels - Answers -d. communication channels (Area VII:
Communicate, Promote, and Advocate for Health, Health Education/Promotion, and the
Profession)
Smoking bands in restaurants are which type of strategy in a community-based smoking
prevention program?
a. Health communication
b. Health engineering
c. Health policy
d. Health mobilization - Answers -c. Health Policy (Area II: Implement Health
Education/Promotion)
Which section of an original research paper presents evidence tested against the stated
hypotheses or research questions and presents the statistical findings?
a. Methodology
b. Results
c. Discussion
d. Conclusion - Answers -b. Results (Area IV Conduct Evaluation and Research Related
to Health Education/Promotion)
Which of the following statements about informed consent is correct?
a. It only has to be completed when a health education specialist is working with
children or adolescents
b. It explains the benefits, risks, and participation is voluntary and may be terminated at
any time
c. It protects the health education specialist in cases of negligence form being sued by
participants who were harmed
d. It is necessary for medical research, but not behavior-focused health education
programs - Answers -b. It explains the benefits, risks, and participation is voluntary and
may be terminated at any time (Area III: Implement Health Education/Promotion)
The health department administrator just returned from 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
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