CHES PRACTICE EXAM 7TH EDITION
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2026/2027 UPDATE
c. Health Belief Model
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.
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
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
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
Data storage is an example of which type of technology need?
a. infrastructure
b. program delivery
c. colloboration technology
d. knowledge
d. communication channels
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
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
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
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
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
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2026/2027 UPDATE
c. Health Belief Model
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.
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
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
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
Data storage is an example of which type of technology need?
a. infrastructure
b. program delivery
c. colloboration technology
d. knowledge
d. communication channels
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
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
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
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
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
