CHWS MODULE 1: QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
1. What is a CHW? Community Health Worker
2. Community Health Workers (CHWs) facilitate support basis in times
groups and workshops that support communities to of crisis.
organize and for social change to advance the
community's health and welfare.
3. As a CHW, what does it mean to actively advocate in
your role?
4. means that the health care organization re-
ceives a set amount of funding to serve each patient,
instead of reimbursement for each appointment, test
or treatment provided.
5. By completing each module in the community health
worker curriculum you are participating in ,
which ensures that you receive certification from
Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) to impact your
community as a CHW.
6. CHWs reduce persistent or differences in the
rates of illness, disability, and death (or mortality)
among different communities, in particular those dif-
ferences that are preventable, unfair, and unjust.
7. A is a naturally occurring community
network through which family, friends, neighbors, and
others, connected by shared experience (in the same
geographic setting or share experience), watch out for
one another reach out with assistance on a regular
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ANSWERS
advocate
actively speak up and sup- port a client community, or policy change
Capitation
credentialing
health inequalities
Natural Helping System
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ANSWERS
1. What is a CHW? Community Health Worker
2. Community Health Workers (CHWs) facilitate support basis in times
groups and workshops that support communities to of crisis.
organize and for social change to advance the
community's health and welfare.
3. As a CHW, what does it mean to actively advocate in
your role?
4. means that the health care organization re-
ceives a set amount of funding to serve each patient,
instead of reimbursement for each appointment, test
or treatment provided.
5. By completing each module in the community health
worker curriculum you are participating in ,
which ensures that you receive certification from
Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) to impact your
community as a CHW.
6. CHWs reduce persistent or differences in the
rates of illness, disability, and death (or mortality)
among different communities, in particular those dif-
ferences that are preventable, unfair, and unjust.
7. A is a naturally occurring community
network through which family, friends, neighbors, and
others, connected by shared experience (in the same
geographic setting or share experience), watch out for
one another reach out with assistance on a regular
1/6
, CHWS MODULE 1: QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
advocate
actively speak up and sup- port a client community, or policy change
Capitation
credentialing
health inequalities
Natural Helping System
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