CHES PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS 2026/2027 – 7TH EDITION
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c. Health Belief Model - Correct answer✅✅ 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
b. focus on how new and different the program is from what exists - Correct answer✅✅ 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
d. health disparities - Correct answer✅✅ 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
,a. infrastructure - Correct answer✅✅ Data storage is an example of which type of technology need?
a. infrastructure
b. program delivery
c. colloboration technology
d. knowledge
d. communication channels - Correct answer✅✅ 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
c. Health policy - Correct answer✅✅ Smoking bans in a restaurant are which type of strategy in a
community-based smoking prevention program?
a. health communication
b. health engineering
c. health policy
d. health mobilization
b. results - Correct answer✅✅ 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
b. it explains the benefits, risks, and participation is voluntary and may be terminated at any time -
Correct answer✅✅ 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 from being sued by participants who
were harmed
d. It is necessary for medical research, but not behavior-focused health education programs
b. the generalization of the findings - Correct answer✅✅ 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
department should offer city wide. Knowing the limitations of this strategy, the health education
specialist is rightfully concerned about:
a. the relibility of the findings
b. the generalizations of the findings
c. the validity of the findings
d. the accuracy of the findings
a. what tactics should be used to influence people. - Correct answer✅✅ When developing advocacy
plans, which questions would be considered last?
a. what tactics should be used to influence people?
b. what are the goals of the advocacy effort?
c. who are our allies and opponents?
d. what organizational issues might facilitate the effort?
, D. ERIC, education resource information center - Correct answer✅✅ A health education specialist is
asked to find school health resources for physical activity. The most appropriate bibliographic database
search is:
a. MEDLINE
b. EBMR (evidence-based medicine reviews)
c. CHID (comparative history of ideas)
d. ERIC (education resources information center)
a. revealed prior to hiring - Correct answer✅✅ While hiring new employees, the health education
specialist should contact the candidates' professional references and validate the employees' degrees. In
doing so, discrepancies may be:
a. revealed prior to hiring
b. concealed and are a waste of time
c. able to reveal the exact quality of persons
d. complicate the termination process.
c. supporting participants - Correct answer✅✅ The health education specialist has core substance
abuse prevention coalition members in place and is currently broadening group representation. Some
new members only contribute money to the coalition and are categorized as:
a. occasional participants
b. executive participants
c. supporting participants
d. active participants
d. advisory board - Correct answer✅✅ A group of health education specialists run into a situation
where they need to elicit specialized guidance and expert opinion on a specific health topic in order to
aid in decision-making. Of the following, which type of gruop should be consulted?
a. committee-of-the-whole
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c. Health Belief Model - Correct answer✅✅ 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
b. focus on how new and different the program is from what exists - Correct answer✅✅ 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
d. health disparities - Correct answer✅✅ 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
,a. infrastructure - Correct answer✅✅ Data storage is an example of which type of technology need?
a. infrastructure
b. program delivery
c. colloboration technology
d. knowledge
d. communication channels - Correct answer✅✅ 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
c. Health policy - Correct answer✅✅ Smoking bans in a restaurant are which type of strategy in a
community-based smoking prevention program?
a. health communication
b. health engineering
c. health policy
d. health mobilization
b. results - Correct answer✅✅ 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
b. it explains the benefits, risks, and participation is voluntary and may be terminated at any time -
Correct answer✅✅ 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 from being sued by participants who
were harmed
d. It is necessary for medical research, but not behavior-focused health education programs
b. the generalization of the findings - Correct answer✅✅ 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
department should offer city wide. Knowing the limitations of this strategy, the health education
specialist is rightfully concerned about:
a. the relibility of the findings
b. the generalizations of the findings
c. the validity of the findings
d. the accuracy of the findings
a. what tactics should be used to influence people. - Correct answer✅✅ When developing advocacy
plans, which questions would be considered last?
a. what tactics should be used to influence people?
b. what are the goals of the advocacy effort?
c. who are our allies and opponents?
d. what organizational issues might facilitate the effort?
, D. ERIC, education resource information center - Correct answer✅✅ A health education specialist is
asked to find school health resources for physical activity. The most appropriate bibliographic database
search is:
a. MEDLINE
b. EBMR (evidence-based medicine reviews)
c. CHID (comparative history of ideas)
d. ERIC (education resources information center)
a. revealed prior to hiring - Correct answer✅✅ While hiring new employees, the health education
specialist should contact the candidates' professional references and validate the employees' degrees. In
doing so, discrepancies may be:
a. revealed prior to hiring
b. concealed and are a waste of time
c. able to reveal the exact quality of persons
d. complicate the termination process.
c. supporting participants - Correct answer✅✅ The health education specialist has core substance
abuse prevention coalition members in place and is currently broadening group representation. Some
new members only contribute money to the coalition and are categorized as:
a. occasional participants
b. executive participants
c. supporting participants
d. active participants
d. advisory board - Correct answer✅✅ A group of health education specialists run into a situation
where they need to elicit specialized guidance and expert opinion on a specific health topic in order to
aid in decision-making. Of the following, which type of gruop should be consulted?
a. committee-of-the-whole
