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Certified Health Education Specialist Exam
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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.
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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.
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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.
Health Impact Assessment - Answers✔A combination of procedures methods and tools by which
a policy program on project maybe judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population
and the distribution of those effects within the population.
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Certified Health Education Specialist Exam
Questions With Verified 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.
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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.
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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.
Health Impact Assessment - Answers✔A combination of procedures methods and tools by which
a policy program on project maybe judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population
and the distribution of those effects within the population.
