ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Planning a health education program - Correct answers✔✔health professional will be assessing
the needs and resources of the community in question
- include and honest assessment of the limitations, potential obstacles
- once implemented the focus of planning health professional will be on the evaluating it success
-Success can only be defined as the extent to which the health education program meets the
objectives for which it was originally created
Mission Statement - Correct answers✔✔succinct summary of the program ; includes description
of the purpose
general focus or purpose
Goal - Correct answers✔✔a broad statement of the long term ambitions of health education
program
Objective - Correct answers✔✔The specific achievements that will contribute to the realization
of the goal; in order to be professional, an objective must include a system for measuring its own
achievement, activities, resources, and planning effort are designed to meet the objectives
objectives have to be measurable and defined, explicit and clear
Programs - Correct answers✔✔the organized distribution of health-related services to a specific
population
, Program planning - Correct answers✔✔the process of designing the organization,
implementation, and evaluation of a health education program, must be comprehensive and
highly detailed if the program is to succeed.
Community-based organization - Correct answers✔✔a non-profit organization designed to
improve life for the members of a community by providing some service, like healthcare or
education
Stakeholders - Correct answers✔✔all those individuals who will be influenced by a health
education program
Social Marketing - Correct answers✔✔the means of publicizing and promoting a health
education program to the members of the target community
Health communication - Correct answers✔✔the general practice of disseminating health
information to the target population with the hope of making positive change in the lives of
stakeholders
Five major types of objectives - Correct answers✔✔Administrative objective: organized,
streamlined administrative processess for administering services, evaluated by determining the
contributions of staff, and the appropriateness of administrative procedures for the particular task
Learning objectives: changes in knowledge or skills on the part of the target population;
evaluated through quizzes, interviews, and indirect observation
Behavioral Objectives: observable changes in health behavior on the part of the target
population; evaluated through interviews and observation
Environmental Objectives: changes in the elements of the environment that affect health;
evaluated by observation and direct measurement
Program Objectives: changes in health and quality of life among the target population; evaluated
by determining the degree to which the overall objectives of the program are being met