CERTIFIED HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALIST EXAM
NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 150
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
Health Education - ANSWER: - ''Any planned combination of learning experiences
designed to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to
health in individuals, groups, and communities''
Health Promotion - ANSWER: - ''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 - ANSWER: ...- ''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 - ANSWER: ...• ''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).
health disparities - ANSWER: preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury,
violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially
disadvantaged racial, ethnic and other populations
Health equity - ANSWER: when every person has the opportunity to attain his or her
health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because
of social position or social determined circumstances
(Life spans, quality of life, rates of disease, disability, severity of disease)
Social Determinants of Health SDOH - ANSWER: the conditions in the environments
where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide
range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks
Primary Prevention - ANSWER: Preventive measures that forestall the onset of illness
or injury during the prepathogenesis period.
,Secondary Prevention - ANSWER: Preventive measures that lead to early diagnosis
and prompt treatment of disease, illness or injury
Tertiary Prevention - ANSWER: Preventive measures aimed at rehabilitation
following significant pathogenesis.
Primary Data - ANSWER: Data gathered by the Health Education Specialist directly
from or about the population of interest.
Secondary Data - ANSWER: Data gathered by others that may or may not be directly
collected from the individual or population of being assessed.
Health Behavior - ANSWER: Behavior that impacts a person's health.
Needs Assessment - ANSWER: is a systematic, planned collection of information
about the health knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, motivation, and practices of
individuals or groups and the quality of their environment.
Goals of a needs assessment - ANSWER: a.) identifying and prioritizing health
problems
b.) prioritizing the strategies and methods that will be ideal for identifying and
addressing health problems through existing and available resources
c.) identifying additional resources that will support addressing the identified health
problem
Key Steps of the Need Assessment - ANSWER: 1. Determine the purpose of the needs
assessment and priority population(s)
2. Identify available data to assess the health problem
3. Decide on the data collection approach and gather data
4. Analyze and interpret data
5. Identify factors linked to the health problem(s)
6. Identify the focus of the program and begin the planning process
Capacity - ANSWER: is defined as both individual and collective resources that can be
used for health enhancement
Capacity assessment - ANSWER: includes examining potential assets and strengths at
the individual, group and community levels
Three factors that should be identified in a needs assessment - ANSWER: 1.
Predisposing factors
2. Enabling factors
3. Reinforcing factors
Predisposing factors - ANSWER: represent cognitive, emotional, social and
demographic factors that contribute to one's health behavior.
, {Knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and demographic}
Enabling factors - ANSWER: represent internal and external conditions directly
related to the issue that help people adopt and maintain healthy or unhealthy
behaviors
(informational, financial, and social support / environmental factors, resources,
services, supportive policies and facilitators)
(increase the likelihood of a behavior occurring)
Reinforcing factors - ANSWER: represent those factors that help remind, provide
feedback and on going support to ensure that health behaviors are maintained or
terminated.
(daily reminders, peer support groups, daily affirmations, rewards, praise or
symptom relief)
Rapid Model - ANSWER: A tool for conducting needs assessments when there is
limited time or an impending crisis to collect information quickly (i.e. pandemic,
flood etc.)
(RARE & RAR)
Public Health Model - ANSWER: Focuses on quantifying health problems through
existing and epidemiological data.
(focuses on specific population and is valuable when you have limited resources)
Epidemiological Model - ANSWER: Objectively measure problems that pose the
greatest threat to health and quality of life by examining the distribution and
determinants of health problems or events in terms of the population.
Social Model - ANSWER: Focuses on identifying pertinent social, economic and
political issues that influence health.
(emphasizes the role of societal trends in the needs assessment)
Asset model - ANSWER: assessment of strengths of a community, group,
organization, or priority population by examining existing assets that can help
improve health.
(available resources, community relationships, mobilization of community, shared
health visions, community competence)
NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 150
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
Health Education - ANSWER: - ''Any planned combination of learning experiences
designed to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to
health in individuals, groups, and communities''
Health Promotion - ANSWER: - ''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 - ANSWER: ...- ''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 - ANSWER: ...• ''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).
health disparities - ANSWER: preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury,
violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially
disadvantaged racial, ethnic and other populations
Health equity - ANSWER: when every person has the opportunity to attain his or her
health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because
of social position or social determined circumstances
(Life spans, quality of life, rates of disease, disability, severity of disease)
Social Determinants of Health SDOH - ANSWER: the conditions in the environments
where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide
range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks
Primary Prevention - ANSWER: Preventive measures that forestall the onset of illness
or injury during the prepathogenesis period.
,Secondary Prevention - ANSWER: Preventive measures that lead to early diagnosis
and prompt treatment of disease, illness or injury
Tertiary Prevention - ANSWER: Preventive measures aimed at rehabilitation
following significant pathogenesis.
Primary Data - ANSWER: Data gathered by the Health Education Specialist directly
from or about the population of interest.
Secondary Data - ANSWER: Data gathered by others that may or may not be directly
collected from the individual or population of being assessed.
Health Behavior - ANSWER: Behavior that impacts a person's health.
Needs Assessment - ANSWER: is a systematic, planned collection of information
about the health knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, motivation, and practices of
individuals or groups and the quality of their environment.
Goals of a needs assessment - ANSWER: a.) identifying and prioritizing health
problems
b.) prioritizing the strategies and methods that will be ideal for identifying and
addressing health problems through existing and available resources
c.) identifying additional resources that will support addressing the identified health
problem
Key Steps of the Need Assessment - ANSWER: 1. Determine the purpose of the needs
assessment and priority population(s)
2. Identify available data to assess the health problem
3. Decide on the data collection approach and gather data
4. Analyze and interpret data
5. Identify factors linked to the health problem(s)
6. Identify the focus of the program and begin the planning process
Capacity - ANSWER: is defined as both individual and collective resources that can be
used for health enhancement
Capacity assessment - ANSWER: includes examining potential assets and strengths at
the individual, group and community levels
Three factors that should be identified in a needs assessment - ANSWER: 1.
Predisposing factors
2. Enabling factors
3. Reinforcing factors
Predisposing factors - ANSWER: represent cognitive, emotional, social and
demographic factors that contribute to one's health behavior.
, {Knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and demographic}
Enabling factors - ANSWER: represent internal and external conditions directly
related to the issue that help people adopt and maintain healthy or unhealthy
behaviors
(informational, financial, and social support / environmental factors, resources,
services, supportive policies and facilitators)
(increase the likelihood of a behavior occurring)
Reinforcing factors - ANSWER: represent those factors that help remind, provide
feedback and on going support to ensure that health behaviors are maintained or
terminated.
(daily reminders, peer support groups, daily affirmations, rewards, praise or
symptom relief)
Rapid Model - ANSWER: A tool for conducting needs assessments when there is
limited time or an impending crisis to collect information quickly (i.e. pandemic,
flood etc.)
(RARE & RAR)
Public Health Model - ANSWER: Focuses on quantifying health problems through
existing and epidemiological data.
(focuses on specific population and is valuable when you have limited resources)
Epidemiological Model - ANSWER: Objectively measure problems that pose the
greatest threat to health and quality of life by examining the distribution and
determinants of health problems or events in terms of the population.
Social Model - ANSWER: Focuses on identifying pertinent social, economic and
political issues that influence health.
(emphasizes the role of societal trends in the needs assessment)
Asset model - ANSWER: assessment of strengths of a community, group,
organization, or priority population by examining existing assets that can help
improve health.
(available resources, community relationships, mobilization of community, shared
health visions, community competence)
