CHES CERTIFIED STUDY DOSSIER 2026 VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
PACK
● area of responsibility I. Answer: assess needs, assets, and capacity for
health education
● Health problem. Answer: potential or real threat to physical or
emotional well-being
● Needs assessment. Answer: systematic, planned collection of
information about the health knowledge, perceptions, attitudes,
motivations, and practices of individuals or groups and the quality of the
socioeconomic environment in which they live. Measures the gaps
between what is an what ought to be.
● Primary data. Answer: data gathered by the health education specialist
directly from or about the individual or population of interest. Collected
from means by surveys, interviews, focus groups, direct observations.
● secondary data. Answer: data that are already have been collected by
others that may or may not be directly gathered from the individual or
population being assessed. Existing research, US Ceneus, Vital Records,
Disease Registries.
● stakeholders. Answer: involved in program operations as program
managers, program staff, partners, funding agencies, coalition members
, or those served or affected by the program/project including patients,
clients, advocacy groups and community members. Those who affect
change or are affected by it
● service needs. Answer: those things health professionals believe a
given population must have or be able to do in order to resolve a health
problem
● service demand. Answer: those things people say they must have or
be able to do in order to resolve their health problem
● six-step process for conducting a needs assessment. Answer: 1.
determine the scope of the work and the purpose of the needs assessment
2. gather data
3. analyze data
4. identify any factors linked to the health problem
5. identify the focus of the program
6. validate the need before continuing the planning process
● epidemiological model. Answer: focus on epidemiological data (death
rates, prevalence rates, birth rates, etc.)
PACK
● area of responsibility I. Answer: assess needs, assets, and capacity for
health education
● Health problem. Answer: potential or real threat to physical or
emotional well-being
● Needs assessment. Answer: systematic, planned collection of
information about the health knowledge, perceptions, attitudes,
motivations, and practices of individuals or groups and the quality of the
socioeconomic environment in which they live. Measures the gaps
between what is an what ought to be.
● Primary data. Answer: data gathered by the health education specialist
directly from or about the individual or population of interest. Collected
from means by surveys, interviews, focus groups, direct observations.
● secondary data. Answer: data that are already have been collected by
others that may or may not be directly gathered from the individual or
population being assessed. Existing research, US Ceneus, Vital Records,
Disease Registries.
● stakeholders. Answer: involved in program operations as program
managers, program staff, partners, funding agencies, coalition members
, or those served or affected by the program/project including patients,
clients, advocacy groups and community members. Those who affect
change or are affected by it
● service needs. Answer: those things health professionals believe a
given population must have or be able to do in order to resolve a health
problem
● service demand. Answer: those things people say they must have or
be able to do in order to resolve their health problem
● six-step process for conducting a needs assessment. Answer: 1.
determine the scope of the work and the purpose of the needs assessment
2. gather data
3. analyze data
4. identify any factors linked to the health problem
5. identify the focus of the program
6. validate the need before continuing the planning process
● epidemiological model. Answer: focus on epidemiological data (death
rates, prevalence rates, birth rates, etc.)
