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According to which theory or model do people assess the threat of an emerging
diease by assessing their perceived susceptibility against the severity of the disease.
c. Health Belief Model a. Diffusion of innovations
b. Social Cognitive Theory
c. Health Belief Model
d. Social Marketing
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?
b. focus on how new and different the
program is from what exists
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
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:
d. health disparities
a. health equity
b. health determinants
c. health capacity
d. health disparities
, Data storage is an example of which type of technology need?
a. infrastructure
a. infrastructure
b. program delivery
c. colloboration technology
d. knowledge
Newsletters, community meetings, public service announcements, and social
networking sites are examples of:
d. communication channels a. social norms
b. communication campaigns
c. social media
d. communication channels
Smoking bans in a restaurant are which type of strategy in a community-based
smoking prevention program?
c. Health policy a. health communication
b. health engineering
c. health policy
d. health mobilization
Which section of an original research paper presents evidence tested against the
stated hypotheses or research questions and presents the statistical findings
b. results a. methodology
b. results
c. discussion
d. conclusion
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
b. It explains the benefits, risks, and participation is voluntary and may be terminated
participation is voluntary and may be
at any time
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
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
b. the generalization of the findings 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
, When developing advocacy plans, which questions would be considered last?
a. what tactics should be used to influence a. what tactics should be used to influence people?
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?
A health education specialist is asked to find school health resources for physical
activity. The most appropriate bibliographic database search is:
D. ERIC, education resource information
a. MEDLINE
center
b. EBMR (evidence-based medicine reviews)
c. CHID (comparative history of ideas)
d. ERIC (education resources information center)
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
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.
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:
c. supporting participants
a. occasional participants
b. executive participants
c. supporting participants
d. active participants
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?
d. advisory board
a. committee-of-the-whole
b. task-force
c. standing committee
d. advisory board
Consumption, medication compliance, and self-care are considered which type of
factors related to health?
c. behavioral a. attitudes
b. environmental
c. behavioral
d. genetic
Health departments and worksites are implementing a new health
education/promotion program to increase influenza vaccine rates for adults in a five
county area. What will the project lead focus on to assess the fidelity of
implementation?
d. program components being
implemented in the correct order
a. location of vaccinations for children
b. workers reading materials distributed to all worksites
c. amount of vaccine available to the public
d. Program components being implemented in the correct order
CHES Practice Exam Questions (From 7th
edition)
Save
Students also studied
Flashcard sets Study guides Practice tests
Community Health EXAM 1 History of Community and Public He... Key Concepts in U.S. Healthcare Sys... Fundam
27 terms 58 terms 20 terms 36 terms
abigalestlaurent Preview isabella_rain7 Preview Cassidy_Carley Preview Kyl
According to which theory or model do people assess the threat of an emerging
diease by assessing their perceived susceptibility against the severity of the disease.
c. Health Belief Model a. Diffusion of innovations
b. Social Cognitive Theory
c. Health Belief Model
d. Social Marketing
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?
b. focus on how new and different the
program is from what exists
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
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:
d. health disparities
a. health equity
b. health determinants
c. health capacity
d. health disparities
, Data storage is an example of which type of technology need?
a. infrastructure
a. infrastructure
b. program delivery
c. colloboration technology
d. knowledge
Newsletters, community meetings, public service announcements, and social
networking sites are examples of:
d. communication channels a. social norms
b. communication campaigns
c. social media
d. communication channels
Smoking bans in a restaurant are which type of strategy in a community-based
smoking prevention program?
c. Health policy a. health communication
b. health engineering
c. health policy
d. health mobilization
Which section of an original research paper presents evidence tested against the
stated hypotheses or research questions and presents the statistical findings
b. results a. methodology
b. results
c. discussion
d. conclusion
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
b. It explains the benefits, risks, and participation is voluntary and may be terminated
participation is voluntary and may be
at any time
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
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
b. the generalization of the findings 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
, When developing advocacy plans, which questions would be considered last?
a. what tactics should be used to influence a. what tactics should be used to influence people?
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?
A health education specialist is asked to find school health resources for physical
activity. The most appropriate bibliographic database search is:
D. ERIC, education resource information
a. MEDLINE
center
b. EBMR (evidence-based medicine reviews)
c. CHID (comparative history of ideas)
d. ERIC (education resources information center)
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
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.
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:
c. supporting participants
a. occasional participants
b. executive participants
c. supporting participants
d. active participants
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?
d. advisory board
a. committee-of-the-whole
b. task-force
c. standing committee
d. advisory board
Consumption, medication compliance, and self-care are considered which type of
factors related to health?
c. behavioral a. attitudes
b. environmental
c. behavioral
d. genetic
Health departments and worksites are implementing a new health
education/promotion program to increase influenza vaccine rates for adults in a five
county area. What will the project lead focus on to assess the fidelity of
implementation?
d. program components being
implemented in the correct order
a. location of vaccinations for children
b. workers reading materials distributed to all worksites
c. amount of vaccine available to the public
d. Program components being implemented in the correct order
